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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, mreimer@vpop.net,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.26-rc8] drivers/power:  fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:21:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807020221.02571.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080702014906.6303fd97.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Do we think this is needed in 2.6.26?
> 
> In 2.6.25.x?

I don't think either.  Arguably this particular type
of driver should always be statically linked.  And
these are new enough that they weren't hit by the
regression (fix) aspect of $PATCH.

- Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-02  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-02  7:13 [patch 2.6.26-rc8] drivers/power: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug David Brownell
2008-07-02  8:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02  9:21   ` David Brownell [this message]

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