Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] media: tea5764: reconcile Kconfig symbol andmacro

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Sun Oct 30 2011 - 13:32:08 EST


On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 10:24 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/30/11 10:12, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > 2) I'm not sure why things are done that way. Why can't builtin drivers
> > and loadable drivers default to identical values? But perhaps I'm just
> > misunderstanding the code.
>
> They could default to identical values.

That would make the cleaning up I'm trying to do now somewhat easier. It
would allow to simplify the drivers a bit too.

> Maybe someone thinks that
> it's more difficult to pass parameters to builtin drivers so they
> just try to use some sane defaults for them instead, whereas it's
> easy (easier) to pass parameters to loadable modules. ??

Perhaps Mauro or the people at linux-media know the reasoning here. Or
they can show us that I didn't parse the code correctly, of course.


Paul Bolle

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