RE: [PATCH 0/5] staging: comedi: split bus support into separate modules

From: Hartley Sweeten
Date: Fri Oct 31 2014 - 14:19:38 EST


On Friday, October 31, 2014 10:48 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> The Comedi core module doesn't need support for PCI, USB or PCMCIA.
> Only the low-level Comedi drivers need it. Split the support for these
> bus types out of the core "comedi" module and into new modules,
> "comedi_pci", "comedi_usb", and "comedi_pcmcia".
>
> 1) staging: comedi: comedidev.h: remove dummy PCI support functions
> 2) staging: comedi: comedidev.h: remove some #ifdefs
> 3) staging: comedi: split out PCMCIA support into new module
> 4) staging: comedi: split out USB support into new module
> 5) staging: comedi: split out PCI support into new module

Ian,

Is this really necessary?

The pci, usb, and pcmcia support is already conditionally compiled in.
The support does get added to the main comedi module instead of
as separate modules but that shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,
Hartley

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