Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757157AbYGXN6Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:58:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756031AbYGXN6H (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:58:07 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:47314 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755636AbYGXN6F (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:58:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:57:56 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Mark Brown Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: Enable WM97xx touchscreen sub-drivers by default Message-ID: <20080724065756.55954c35@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1216906867-5058-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1216905308-4723-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <1216906867-5058-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1001 Lines: 25 On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:41:07 +0100 Mark Brown wrote: > Currently the support for each WM97xx touchscreen model is compiled > out by default, meaning that the default configuration when the > driver is built is for it to support no hardware. This is suboptimal > and leads to problems like distribution kernels shipping a > non-functional driver. this isn't normally how things are done; Linux is on a "off unless selected or unless it breaks booting" policy nowadays... (and distributions don't follow "default" anyway, so don't worry about that part) -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/