On Sunday 18 September 2011 11:45:16 Randy Dunlap wrote:
We have fallbacks to Andrew and/or GregKH currently, but GregKH is not
consistent or timely with applying drivers/misc/ patches. It deserves
better.
[added him to Cc: list]
I do try to handle patches sent to me for misc/ in
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:47:50AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2011 11:45:16 Randy Dunlap wrote:
We have fallbacks to Andrew and/or GregKH currently, but GregKH is not
consistent or timely with applying drivers/misc/ patches. It deserves
better.
[added him to
On Monday 19 September 2011, Greg KH wrote:
That sounds good to me, I'll be glad to collect the patches and push
them to Linus for both of those trees (might as well keep them in the
same git tree, no need to separate them, right?) and I'll rely on you
for review and acking them. Much like I
On 09/05/2011 07:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
I think it would simply be more consistent to have it enabled all
the time. Well, even better would be to move the bulk of the misc
drivers to a proper location sorted by their subsystems. A lot of them
should never have been merged in their current
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:11:45AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 09/05/2011 07:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
I think it would simply be more consistent to have it enabled all
the time. Well, even better would be to move the bulk of the misc
drivers to a proper location sorted by their
On 09/18/2011 08:28 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:11:45AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 09/05/2011 07:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
I think it would simply be more consistent to have it enabled all
the time. Well, even better would be to move the bulk of the misc
drivers to a
Hi Arnd,
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:43:14 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Since misc devices have nothing in common besides fitting in no
other category, there is no need to group them in one Kconfig
symbol. Simply removing the symbol gets rid of all sorts of
Kconfig warnings about missing
On Monday 05 September 2011, Jean Delvare wrote:
As said before, I'm not sure. Yes, it makes it easier to select misc
device drivers from Kconfig files. But it also makes it impossible to
deselect all misc device drivers at once.
I think that what we really need is the implementation in the
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:19:35 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Monday 05 September 2011, Jean Delvare wrote:
As said before, I'm not sure. Yes, it makes it easier to select misc
device drivers from Kconfig files. But it also makes it impossible to
deselect all misc device drivers at once.
Since misc devices have nothing in common besides fitting in no
other category, there is no need to group them in one Kconfig
symbol. Simply removing the symbol gets rid of all sorts of
Kconfig warnings about missing dependencies when another driver
selects a misc driver without also selecting
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