Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752504AbaAMTTj (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:19:39 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:38000 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752046AbaAMTTh (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:19:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:19:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20140113.111936.1286616042680494607.davem@davemloft.net> To: hayeswang@realtek.com Cc: oliver@neukum.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nic_swsd@realtek.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] r8152: add supporting the vendor mode only From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1389250232-8663-4-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> References: <1389250232-8663-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <1389250232-8663-4-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Hayes Wang Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:50:32 +0800 > Remove the limitation that the ecm and r8152 drivers couldn't coexist. > Besides, add the feature to support the vendor mode only. This let > someone who doesn't want to use ecm driver easy to use the vendor > driver without creating the udev rule. > > Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang This is a very bad precedence and I do not want drivers to start doing things like this. I think it would be wiser to use the existing facilities which exist to control this situation, and yes udev is one of them. I'm sorry, I'm not applying this series as long as it has this patch in it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/