From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] i810fb: Do not probe the third i2c bus by default Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:16:31 -0800 Message-ID: <20060129001631.597a7766.akpm@osdl.org> References: <43DC2236.4030900@gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F37jy-0003XL-9x for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:16:54 -0800 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.44) id 1F37jx-0007hc-PF for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:16:54 -0800 In-Reply-To: <43DC2236.4030900@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > > > Some time before 2.6.15, a third DDC channel was added to i810fb. > On systems where these ddc pins are not connected, the probe > takes about 10 seconds. > > Add a boot/module option for i810fb to explicitly probe for the 3rd > ddc bus if needed. argh. We really shouldn't be adding options like this. People just won't know that the option exists and they'll sit there wondering why their kernel doesn't work right. Or we invert the sense of the option and they sit there wondering why the bootup is so slow. Is there not any way in which to fix this so things just work? A 10-second timeout sounds crazy. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642