From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joakim Hernberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] make HWLAT_DETECTOR kernel config either disabled or a module, never builtin. Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:47:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20151211204720.3571ad93@balder.valhalla.alchemy.lu> References: <20150923193340.0881074b@tor.valhalla.alchemy.lu> <20151211165240.GG6720@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , Uwe =?UTF-8?B?S2xlaW5lLUvDtm5pZw==?= To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Return-path: Received: from mailsafe.webbplatsen.se ([94.247.172.109]:47375 "EHLO mailsafe.webbplatsen.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751358AbbLKUDk (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:03:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20151211165240.GG6720@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:52:40 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Joakim Hernberg | 2015-09-23 19:33:40 [+0200]: > > >Since the HWLAT_DETECTOR driver supposedly shouldn't be builtin, but > >a module when used at all, it would make sense to limit the > >configuration choices: > > what is wrong with it beeing built-in? The default is m already. To be quite honest I'm not quite sure anymore, think it fails when built in. I also faintly remember an irc discussion where it was claimed that it shouldn't be built into the kernel, think that was the reason for creating the patch. -- Joakim