From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2832#note_1684711819
While Fedora is very much interested in enabling any drivers for hardware that is or soon will be in the wild, there isn't much point in enabling a driver on an arch where it will never be used. The real problem with IIO and so many other chips, is drivers come before the hardware really. I know certain vendors regularly appear in laptops from major vendors, but I don't know which new chips the laptop vendors are planning to incorporate in future products. As a result, I tend to turn on most of them. Basically, if there is no actual way to use a driver on an arch, it is just extra surface area and should be disabled. If we had some sort of a legitimate data feed for several arches I would guess we could turn off hundreds of drivers. There is a similar problem with aarch64, in that several drivers end up enabled for SoCs that we will never run on because no vendor picks them up for a form factor of interest. -- _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
