On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:00:52AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:02:42AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:48:05PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >> > > Can the initcall stuff be kept out of mainline? I'd expect > >> > The init order stuff is in mainline already, you're far too late to the >> > party here. > >> For some drivers it might be already in mainline, it does not matter >> that we should continue adding more. > > It's not just a few drivers, there's entire subsystems that are doing > this. > >> > Keeping things in board trees is exactly the sort of thing we want to >> > avoid people doing. That just means people do all sorts of stuff that >> > wouldn't be acceptable upstream, either out of ignorance or through >> > knowing that only their systems have to work with what they're doing, >> > and just don't bother working upstream at all half the time making life >> > miserable for pretty much everyone. > >> So you are saying that we should accept such crap directly into >> mainline? > > Pretty much, yes. In code terms it's not really invasive and it doesn't > have any real impact on other systems so it's the sort of thing we can > carry without too much pain. Pragmatically it's not unreasonable. +1 g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
