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From: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:42:47 +0200

> IMHO the place for board specific hacks is in the board specifc startup
> code - am I wrong?

We never add bootup time hacks for things that already have
a suitable generic and clean configuration interface.

People ask for module options and all kinds of crap like that
to set link parameters, and we always say no.