Re: [patch] irda: fix !PNP support in drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:58:23 +0200

> i just used the existing precedent of doing the #ifdef: it's not _that_ 
> bad as it surrounds a single function most of the time so it's rather 
> apparent what is happening - and that is what is done in some other 
> drivers as well.
> 
> btw., when i fixed this i almost implemented it the way that you 
> suggested, but there's also a code size argument to when the suspend 
> callbacks are not used: the extra dummy function takes up text space, 
> and people turn off PNP when they build some specialized thing and try 
> to reduce the size of the kernel.
> 
> but in any case, i have no strong feelings in either direction.

The existing practice is ugly :-)

But I see arguments for either side, just like you.

Meanwhile let's fix this build error, I'll toss your patches
into my net-2.6 tree.

Thanks.