Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:00:11 +0100 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Greg,
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:43:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> > >> > Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of different >> > driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest with the >> > addition of some new platforms that are now supported. >> >> Hmm. So if you answer 'N' to "System Trace Module devices", it will >> still ask you about the dummy STM driver, and it will still ask you >> about doing a console over STM devices. >> >> That seems a bit disingenuous, no?
And if you say Y to the latter, it's not even compiled if STM=n...
> Yeah, that's not good, I only tested it with it enabled. I'll go add > some dependancies to the Kconfig file, as there are none for those > options, I missed that.
I've already sent a patch to do that, but as get_maintainer didn't report you, I forgot to CC you. Patch resent by private email.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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