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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk.
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:35:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091125113501.1f4d42b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091125085324.1ef9ae1f@fido2.homeip.net>

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:53:24 -0800
Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:58:41 +0200
> Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >From 5c5e6f5ab1a5a09a430f410cab4b160a5e65501c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > >2001
> > From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:37:46 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk.
> >  This is much cleaner and correct solution

This patch actually fixes a bug but the changelog forgot to tell us
this important fact.

> I'm fine with the concept, but when I originally started work on
> Ricoh support, Pierre specifically didn't want a pci quirk.
> 
> Pierre wrote:
> > I'd rather we didn't. The current style of quirks are bad enough,
> > making them even more vendor or device specific is a bit more than I'm
> > willing to accept right now (seriously, how hard can it be to follow
> > the damn spec?).

Can the bug be fixed by other means, within ricoh_mmc.c?

It's a bit sad to add a lump of code to everyone's kernel like this -
what percentage of those machines actually have a ricoh mmc controller?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-25 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-24  0:13 The work of ricoh_mmc isn't detected by pci core Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-24  0:21 ` Philip Langdale
2009-11-25 14:55   ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-25 14:58     ` [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-25 16:53       ` Philip Langdale
2009-11-25 19:35         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-11-25 23:40           ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-26  1:30             ` Philip Langdale
2009-11-26 23:51               ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-26 23:53                 ` [PATCH v2] port ricoh_mmc to be " Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-27  7:55                   ` Philip Langdale
2010-01-08 15:24                     ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-01-08 15:40                       ` Philip Langdale
2010-01-12 23:43                         ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-13  1:23                           ` Philip Langdale
2010-01-13  6:46                           ` Wolfram Sang
2010-01-29 13:37                             ` [PATCH v3] port ricoh_mmc to " Maxim Levitsky
2010-01-29 16:06                               ` Philip Langdale
2010-01-29 22:10                                 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-01-30  2:18                                   ` Philip Langdale
2010-01-29 16:33                               ` Wolfram Sang
2010-01-29 22:13                                 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-01-30 21:28                               ` [PATCH] Port " Maxim Levitsky
2010-02-01 15:45                                 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-11-25 20:30         ` [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver " Pierre Ossman

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