From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932721AbYD1TfF (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:35:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758620AbYD1Tel (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:34:41 -0400 Received: from mail.AKNET.ru ([77.246.241.226]:63738 "EHLO mail.aknet.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756206AbYD1Tek (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:34:40 -0400 Message-ID: <481626B6.5040207@aknet.ru> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:34:14 +0400 From: Stas Sergeev User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov CC: Andrew Morton , Takashi Iwai , Linux kernel , Vojtech Pavlik , Michael Opdenacker , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch] pcspkr: fix dependancies References: <4813476A.7000705@aknet.ru> <200804261918.14711.dtor-oss@comcast.net> <4813BD39.1080105@aknet.ru> <20080427042331.GB29127@anvil.corenet.prv> In-Reply-To: <20080427042331.GB29127@anvil.corenet.prv> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > It looks like the change was introduced by commit > 67926892ef7a7fbc76de607120d44416019fdf07 Indeed. But the log message http://www.mail-archive.com/git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org/msg36026.html doesn't seem to specify the reason for the change, so this doesn't clarify a thing, unfortunately. > I think that we should register devices even if there is no driver in > the kernel for it because driver may be compiled at later time or be out > of tree. Adding patch author and other people that signed off the patch > to CC... Since there seem to be no objections, would you mind adding the patch to your git tree? Or who should that be?