From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757135AbbCSRVO (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:21:14 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:42591 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751036AbbCSRFz (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:05:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:04:17 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Tejun Heo Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Doug Thompson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Tetsuo Handa , Olof Johansson , Arjan van de Ven , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Luis R . Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: amd64_edac: decide if driver can load successfully early. Message-ID: <20150319170417.GM11715@pd.tnic> References: <20150319153505.GD11715@pd.tnic> <20150319155253.GA30732@dtor-ws> <20150319155953.GF11715@pd.tnic> <20150319161226.GC30732@dtor-ws> <20150319162301.GH11715@pd.tnic> <20150319163330.GN25365@htj.duckdns.org> <20150319164506.GJ11715@pd.tnic> <20150319164908.GO25365@htj.duckdns.org> <20150319165619.GL11715@pd.tnic> <20150319170339.GP25365@htj.duckdns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150319170339.GP25365@htj.duckdns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:03:39PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > Just don't do it. It makes the driver behave differently from others > for no good reason. Driver being loaded or not doesn't indicate > anything anymore other than the code is loaded and you're adding > complexity to just make it more confusing and you don't have good > enough technical reasons to justify the deviation. What are you even > fighting for? Scroll back a couple of messages. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --