From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, gwingerde@gmail.com,
larry.finger@lwfinger.net, davem@davemloft.net,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:03:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124030335.GA15514@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5A9qpgAhL9NZXL3uYqSVjDPchdmBMySzjD=uenndjY4bw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:57:36AM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> > I think that is true for the majority of stuff we have under drivers/misc
> > anyway. I had done the same patch that Fabio sent a couple of months ago
> > but then forgot about it, so here is a wholehearted
> >
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > for the new patch. It fixes a real problem, and we applied a similar patch
> > in drivers/mfd as 8a0a8e8e already. We probably still want to find a better
> > home for drivers that frequently get selected by other subsystems as you
> > said, but that is an independent issue. I don't see why anyone would
> > need a way to disable all MISC drivers at once, when the only thing that
> > (in theory) connects them is that they are all different from everything
> > else.
>
> Do you have any objections about this patch?
Yes, I said my problems with it, I don't recall it being resent
afterward, with any changes.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-05 20:49 [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option Fabio Estevam
2012-01-05 22:39 ` Greg KH
2012-01-06 1:18 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-06 5:03 ` Greg KH
2012-01-06 12:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-24 2:57 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24 3:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-24 3:17 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24 3:48 ` Greg KH
2012-01-24 12:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-05 23:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-05 23:42 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-06 0:08 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-06 1:13 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24 4:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Fabio Estevam
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