On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:19:35 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2011, Jean Delvare wrote: > > As said before, I'm not sure. Yes, it makes it easier to select misc > > device drivers from Kconfig files. But it also makes it impossible to > > deselect all misc device drivers at once. > > > > I think that what we really need is the implementation in the Kconfig > > system of smart selects, i.e. whenever an entry is selected, everything > > it depends on gets selected as well. I don't know how feasible this is, > > but if it can be done then I'd prefer this to your proposal. > > > > Meanwhile, I am not in favor of applying your patch. The benefit is > > relatively small IMHO (misc device drivers are rarely selected) and > > there is one significant drawback. > > Before I made this patch, I started a different one that added about > a dozen 'select MISC_DEVICES' statements sprinkled all over the kernel > in order to silence the Kconfig warnings. Ah, OK. This certainly shifts the scales towards your side. > The problem is that whenever you select that option, the misc directory > suddenly becomes visible when it was disabled before, and things like > 'oldconfig' will start asking about all other misc drivers as well. Another good point. Maybe I'm convinced now. > I think it would simply be more consistent to have it enabled all > the time. Well, even better would be to move the bulk of the misc > drivers to a proper location sorted by their subsystems. A lot of them > should never have been merged in their current state IMHO. As one of the offenders, I won't dare to comment on this ;) > > That being said, I'm not the one to decide, so if you can convince > > someone with more power (aka Andrew Morton)... > > I think I should finally do what has been talked about a few times and > formally become the maintainer of drivers/char and drivers/misc ;-) > > The problem is that I'm not actually a good maintainer, but maybe it's > better to just have someone instead of falling back to Andrew or > some random subsystem maintainer to send any patches for drivers/misc. Certainly. And having a maintainer for these (non-)subsystems would certainly help keep their size low, while the current trend is in the other direction. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
