From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751235Ab2AFFFw (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2012 00:05:52 -0500 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:37820 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894Ab2AFFFu (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2012 00:05:50 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: /1UxXgMb67fuUYO0ttniEXhaQh8oWt87BVsmPFcdcqsJ 1325826349 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:03:55 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Fabio Estevam Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gwingerde@gmail.com, larry.finger@lwfinger.net, davem@davemloft.net, bhutchings@solarflare.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fabio Estevam Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option Message-ID: <20120106050355.GA7633@kroah.com> References: <1325796541-11402-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com> <20120105223933.GA10268@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:18:28PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > Are you sure that this isn't getting confused with the > > drivers/char/misc.c interface instead of the "throw a bunch of randome > > drivers into drivers/misc/" issue? > > Sorry, I am not aware of this issue. > > > Why would anything ever want to select MISC_DEVICES?  What happens if > > you just remove that select line from the Kconfig? > > Yes, I don´t understand the point of allowing the selection MISC_DEVICES. > > IMHO it is potential for causing dependency issues. Then remove that selection. Nothing should be depending on a misc driver, if it is, then that implies that this is more than just a "misc" driver, and it should be moved elsewhere. thanks, greg k-h