On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:24:02AM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:45:09AM -0700, David Cohen wrote: > > > I think adding the module exit + allowing this driver to be a module > > > would be a good approach. Then we don't need to force generic x86 kernel > > > binaries to always have this driver. Unless Mathias or Mika knows a > > > constraint to force this driver to be builtin only. > > > > It helps if I CC them when asking for feedback :) > > > > Mathias, Mika, do you know any constraint that forces pinctrl-baytrail > > to be bool? > > The only constraint that has been keeping this driver as bool is that > some machines like, Asus T100, uses ACPI GPIO operation regions for > toggling GPIOs to get things like sensor hub powered on. The GPIO > operation region code does not yet handle -EPROBE_DEFER so only way to > ensure that the operation region is there is to have the driver compiled > in to the kernel. But that's not enough excuse to have every single x86 in the market shipping with this driver. Think about a distro kernel, most likely this gets enabled and it's wrong in 80% of the cases. It would be nicer to add EPROBE_DEFER support, convert this into tristate and have default = M if BAYTRAIL, or something. -- balbi
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