Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751544AbaDARYD (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:24:03 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34094 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751247AbaDARYB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:24:01 -0400 Message-ID: <533AF612.8020505@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:23:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platforms for v3.15 References: <20140401082757.GA23451@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, This one is largely my fault, but it is not for not asking the questions. This patch is part of the work of modularizing the IOSF drivers, because of course standard distros don't want to compile them in. However, this results in odd problems when IOSF-aware drivers (some of which are present on non-IOSF hardware, as there are drivers that operate on both PCI and IOSF, some of which are still coming down the pipe toward mainline.) It is these dual-mode drivers that make things a bit more complicated than it ought to be. I have explicitly asked David to work on modularizing the IOSF core, even though it is small, exactly to avoid this mess. However, that change didn't make it in time, and I guess I should just have said "no" at that point. I did not want to not have an option to disable it for EXPERT configurations, because we also have people working very hard at shaving down the size of the x86 kernel so that Linux rather than "random RTOS of the month" can be used in deep embedded configurations. On this issue: > (a) people don't know about, so asking people about it is f*cking > retarded to begin with Well, that is why it is an EXPERT option. + bool "IOSF MBI support" if EXPERT -hpa -- 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/