From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ccg: remove two outdated dependencies
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:19:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314221927.GA28339@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363299141.1335.88.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:12:21PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 15:02 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:09:53PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > Well, now that you somehow managed to review this patch the urge to
> > > clean this line up has suddenly diminished. But maybe you're lucky and
> > > this will not pass Greg.
> >
> > It didn't, please clean it up "properly", I'll drop this patch for now,
> > thanks. :)
>
> The horror is mostly caused by negative dependencies on USB Kconfig
> symbols. Any clue why this driver conflicts with about twenty USB
> related options?
Yes, because it is a horrible thing and needs to be deleted.
Seriously, I had a number of people ask me to delete it last week at the
Linaro event.
Hm, I guess I should just do it, I know it would make the USB developers
much happier, nevermind about your patch, I'll just drop the whole
thing, which will fix your problem in a different way :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-14 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-14 10:17 [PATCH] staging: ccg: remove two outdated dependencies Paul Bolle
2013-03-14 10:59 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-03-14 11:09 ` Paul Bolle
2013-03-14 11:28 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-03-14 22:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-14 22:12 ` Paul Bolle
2013-03-14 22:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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