Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option

From: Fabio Estevam
Date: Mon Jan 23 2012 - 21:57:37 EST


Hi Greg,

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think that is true for the majority of stuff we have under drivers/misc
> anyway. I had done the same patch that Fabio sent a couple of months ago
> but then forgot about it, so here is a wholehearted
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> for the new patch. It fixes a real problem, and we applied a similar patch
> in drivers/mfd as 8a0a8e8e already. We probably still want to find a better
> home for drivers that frequently get selected by other subsystems as you
> said, but that is an independent issue. I don't see why anyone would
> need a way to disable all MISC drivers at once, when the only thing that
> (in theory) connects them is that they are all different from everything
> else.

Do you have any objections about this patch?

Thanks,

Fabio Estevam
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