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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Fejes József" <jozsef.fejes@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"David E. Box" <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with commit: x86, iosf: Make IOSF driver modular and usable by more drivers
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:02:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140825200215.6c0e900f@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F8D1FE.5050205@infradead.org>

> David, any other suggestions?
> Why can't the users of IOSF_MBI just select it?  That's what many other
> drivers do when they need to be sure that some functionality is present.

I think the obvious problem is that most users of IOSF_MBI are
non-obvious and there will be many of them over time.
> 
> I'm surprised that someone else (e.g. Linus) has not complained about the
> 'default m' for this driver.

That's certainly wrong, but drivers that use it should probably
auto-select it or we will get a billion bug reports asking why graphics
doesn't work etc 

Alan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-25 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-23  9:31 Problem with commit: x86, iosf: Make IOSF driver modular and usable by more drivers Fejes József
2014-08-23 17:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-08-24 23:57   ` David E. Box
2014-08-25 19:02   ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]

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