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From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Timur Tabi <b04825@freescale.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: warnings from drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:06:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120224220623.GA29400@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F48086C.5010407@freescale.com>

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:00:12PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > Sure, something like that is fine, but if the code really can't be a
> > module, why not just fix the Kconfig file to enforce this properly
> > instead?
> 
> That's the simplest approach, for use.  The TTY portion of the driver can
> be used as a module.  Is there any real value in loading a TTY driver as a
> module?

Depends on the hardware it supports :)

> In this case, the console support for byte channels would not be
> available.

Then it doesn't make sense, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-24 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-19 20:23 warnings from drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c Stephen Rothwell
2012-02-20 13:24 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-02-24 21:50   ` gregkh
2012-02-24 22:00     ` Timur Tabi
2012-02-24 22:06       ` gregkh [this message]
2012-02-24 22:15         ` Timur Tabi
2012-02-24 22:19           ` gregkh
2012-02-24 23:25           ` Scott Wood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-19 20:07 Stephen Rothwell

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