Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: amd64_edac: decide if driver can load successfully early.

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:03:39PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Just don't do it. It makes the driver behave differently from others
> > for no good reason. Driver being loaded or not doesn't indicate
> > anything anymore other than the code is loaded and you're adding
> > complexity to just make it more confusing and you don't have good
> > enough technical reasons to justify the deviation. What are you even
> > fighting for?
> 
> Scroll back a couple of messages.

lsmod indicating hardware capability?  Really?  You're just adding
confusion to the mix.  Stop.

-- 
tejun
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