From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A6E6B0253 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:58:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wicne3 with SMTP id ne3so42832672wic.1 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newverein.lst.de (verein.lst.de. [213.95.11.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ab3si10591900wid.70.2015.08.15.08.58.46 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 17:58:46 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option Message-ID: <20150815155846.GA26248@lst.de> References: <20150813031253.36913.29580.stgit@otcpl-skl-sds-2.jf.intel.com> <20150813035028.36913.25267.stgit@otcpl-skl-sds-2.jf.intel.com> <20150815090635.GF21033@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dan Williams Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Boaz Harrosh , Rik van Riel , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , david , Ingo Molnar , Linux MM , Mel Gorman , Ross Zwisler , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 08:28:35AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > I'm not grokking the argument against allowing this functionality to > be modular. You're adding a another layer of platform_devices just to make a tivially small piece of code modular so that you can hook into it. I don't think that's a good reason, and neither is the after thought of preventing potentially future buggy firmware. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org