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On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 21:39 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 19:22:00 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > None of the media drivers are compulsory, let users select which drivers
> > they want to build, instead of having to unselect them one by one.
> 
> I disagree with this: while this is fine for SoCs, for a generic kernel I
> think it is better to build it all. Even expert users can have a hard time
> figuring out what chip is in a particular device.
Yes, also if a driver is broken, a considerable amount of time could
have passed before it is known.

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