From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945955Ab3BGXKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 18:10:04 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:62883 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753237Ab3BGXKC (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 18:10:02 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: "Winkler, Tomas" Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 05/11] mei: bus: Call bus routines from the core code Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:09:58 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.8.0-4-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "sameo@linux.intel.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <1360270997-7639-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <201302072237.31048.arnd@arndb.de> <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B01EC3BB6@HASMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B01EC3BB6@HASMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201302072309.59009.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:rN7sJ4EdDRZrEOpUdk9By3aP+tzTLzEi/XFTw8sZ7/5 QwLZt3K7Ca2f6fNpuMLglsFMNU2/KT8ObIN0cNDHhnW573rMOU GZbDml2wYTHei/eilzsvwONfRKHlM5Dzh1nsl49h+fNGns3+R/ LmEpphOto45PLHHx6ahqvqU3nxfe3Bj+K+mOt8EX/x7xiFPTrZ mlXvDMycF4s0NZUUPCQT5UDWHkZTXQM891yS8pE0aWkxhd/JNd jiwXS5sGlRDrqhkGhFiMo4bc4imDnIdj2N6l0AUd8BOxPWYo6w V04lQpOCM/Tdz8PNxRZIUtpfdvi6ucKqmgdHjRJId6jaQh9ipx pG2I+5VxhUtPr4m4G2Hs= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 07 February 2013, Winkler, Tomas wrote: > Second why to register anything if the MEI device is not present on the system. Mostly to match the expectations of readers of that code. Note that no memory is wasted if you do this, because it's a static data structure. You can actually save a few bytes because the registration call moves into an __init section that is discarded after boot. Arnd