From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
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 <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:48:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124034859.GB17869@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5AO8TBm+C8LX97j=0SHUXEfcqb+VykBZhu8-ruazWD_3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:17:44AM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > Then remove that selection. Nothing should be depending on a misc
> > driver,
>
> Yes, this is the exact issue that this patch tries to solve.
You are seriously going to have to refresh my memory, the patch is many
weeks old, and long gone from my recall.
> Currently all of these are dependent on MISC_DEVICES being set.
>
> source "drivers/misc/c2port/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/cb710/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/iwmc3200top/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/ti-st/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/lis3lv02d/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/carma/Kconfig"
> source "drivers/misc/altera-stapl/Kconfig"
>
> With the patch applied it is possible to select all the drivers above
> and we don't need to select MISC_DEVICES.
Care to add this to the patch description and resend it as I really
don't remember what is going on here.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 3:49 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
2012-01-24 3:17 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-01-24 3:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
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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