On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:07:08PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > >If it builds it should be enabled in the ALL kernel. > > In this case, I would prefer not to enable it. > > If it matches a device, and there is also a "native" driver for the > underlying i2c controller, then there'll be two devices accessing > the same bus. Bad things (tm) will happen. This is noted in the > BUGS section of the acpismbus(4) man page.
The ALL kernel is NOT intended to be usable. It is all about compile coverage of as many code pathes possible (or those complemental to GENERIC). As such: please do add it with a BIG warning before to annotate that it should not just be copied to a custom config. Joerg