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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: tiwai@suse.de, Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: patch driver-core-warn-about-duplicate-driver-names-on-the-same-bus.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:58:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429045849.GA6348@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4816A888.9000802@aknet.ru>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:48:08AM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> gregkh@suse.de wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >      Subject: driver core: warn about duplicate driver names on the same bus
> > to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is
> Thanks.
> 
> Takashi, do you think this fixes the
> pcspkr/snd-pcsp conflict sufficienly
> well? I think the Kconfig protection
> is no longer needed. For the better
> convinience the modprobe rule can be
> created that will remove one driver
> before inserting another. But this is
> optional.

No, don't rely on the driver core warning and catching code errors like
this, that's not a good idea at all.  I like the warning and your patch,
but don't assume it's always going to be there.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <12094266793898@kroah.org>
2008-04-29  4:48 ` patch driver-core-warn-about-duplicate-driver-names-on-the-same-bus.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree Stas Sergeev
2008-04-29  4:58   ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-04-29 10:41     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-04-29 15:14       ` Greg KH
2008-04-29 16:41         ` Takashi Iwai
2008-04-29 16:56           ` Greg KH
2008-04-29 19:28       ` Stas Sergeev
2008-04-30  6:34         ` Takashi Iwai
2008-04-30 17:45           ` Stas Sergeev
2008-05-02 14:07             ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-02 15:38               ` Stas Sergeev
2008-05-02 16:00                 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-02 16:22                   ` Stas Sergeev
2008-05-02 16:35                     ` Takashi Iwai

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