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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gwingerde@gmail.com,
	larry.finger@lwfinger.net, davem@davemloft.net,
	bhutchings@solarflare.com, arnd@arndb.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:03:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120106050355.GA7633@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5BQhcxViN3KnjhzF9hL1w04egkmb9njc7sDUB0GFdgBog@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:18:28PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure that this isn't getting confused with the
> > drivers/char/misc.c interface instead of the "throw a bunch of randome
> > drivers into drivers/misc/" issue?
> 
> Sorry, I am not aware of this issue.
> 
> > Why would anything ever want to select MISC_DEVICES?  What happens if
> > you just remove that select line from the Kconfig?
> 
> Yes, I don´t understand the point of allowing the selection MISC_DEVICES.
> 
> IMHO it is potential for causing dependency issues.

Then remove that selection.  Nothing should be depending on a misc
driver, if it is, then that implies that this is more than just a "misc"
driver, and it should be moved elsewhere.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-06  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-05 20:49 [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option Fabio Estevam
2012-01-05 22:39 ` Greg KH
2012-01-06  1:18   ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-06  5:03     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-06 12:00       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-24  2:57         ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24  3:03           ` Greg KH
2012-01-24  3:17       ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24  3:48         ` Greg KH
2012-01-24 12:25           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-05 23:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-05 23:42   ` Larry Finger
2012-01-06  0:08   ` Larry Finger
2012-01-06  1:13     ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24  4:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Fabio Estevam

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