Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:55:02 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] V4L1: make PMS not auto-grab port 0x250 |
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> > Just apply a tiny bit of rational thought here. There is exactly ONE > > Ingo. > > And as you say yourself -- close to exactly 1 person who still has this > hardware and closer still to 0 who use it. Really, you contradict yourself:
Consider the posibility that I might be talking about the general case here. And if there are two people with the PMS card thats the general case 8)
> We know this driver breaks the boot during useful kernel work. We know > that changing it has about a 0.0001% percent change of mattering to > anyone and then only as long as all those person can't be bothered to > setup a value in his modprobe.conf.
It never breaks anything for anyone as a module, only compiled in. Which despite your moans about 'factual' things is a fact.
Can I suggest a rather more elegant solution would be to add a "CONFIG_UNSAFE_PROBES" tristate (so you can decide if you want no unsafe probing devices, unsafe probing devices only as modules, or anything goes)
Alan
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