Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 12:21:45PM +0400, Alexander Kurz wrote: > >> This is a new Kconfig and Makefikes for staging/comedi. >> The drivers are sorted now alphabetically in sub-menus >> depending on the bustype. >> I did some basiy dependancy tests, but there still may >> be a lot that I missed. >> >> >From c53596606230a4a8ee7dd76b48cf6b10a059e8f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Alexander Kurz <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 22:46:17 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] staging/comedi: new Kconfig and Makefiles, drivers grouped by bustype. >> PC/104-drivers went into ISA, >> PC/104+ went into PCI, >> Drivers without a bustype went into "misc". >> In doubt drivers supporting both ISA/PCI went into PCI. >> Drivers without any detailed hardware info went into ISA, e.g. fl512.c >> Some NI drivers are used by other NI drivers from different bustypes >> are grouped seperately in NI_COMMON. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kurz <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig | 1274 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- >> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/Makefile | 245 +++--- >> drivers/staging/comedi/kcomedilib/Makefile | 2 +- >> > > Wow. Is this something that we really want? That's a lot of new > Kconfig options, and while it seems like it makes sense, I would like to > get the comedi developers opinion here. > Having recently had cause to use the comedi_parport driver on a PowerPC board, I can say I'm very much in favour of this patch or one like it. I had to modify the makefile so that it didn't require all the PCI drivers to be built (some of which were failing - I really didn't have time to fix them, sorry) to use a driver that doesn't necessarily have any PCI dependency. Even if there are a few dependencies missing, it seems like a step forward. Martyn > Frank? Ian? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Martyn Welch (Principal Software Engineer) | Registered in England and GE Intelligent Platforms | Wales (3828642) at 100 T +44(0)127322748 | Barbirolli Square, Manchester, E martyn.welch@xxxxxx | M2 3AB VAT:GB 927559189 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
