Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when manually binding driver

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Jul 01 2016 - 11:00:41 EST


On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 1 July 2016 at 10:25, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It's been repeatedly suggested to you that the tooling for this stuff
> > could use some work. Please go and put some effort into that rather
> > than continuing this thread which is accomplishing nothing.

> You completely miss the point. No tooling will make people reconfigure
> the kernel when the configuration in fact stays the same.

> Sure the tooling does need work. And it would help getting the cases
> when the tooling is NOT needed out of the way.

I understand the problem perfectly, no amount of repeating yourself is
going to change the problems that the bodge you are trying to force in
creates for other users and the maintainability of the system.

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