On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 08:03:07AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: > >>> Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 17.03.2021 um 17:47 > in > Nachricht <YFIyidaZZmDoTevB@gardel-login>: > > I'd say quirks that are necessary to avoid data corruption should > > better be done in the kernel and udev's hwdb stuff is only for stuff > > that "fills in gaps", i.e. adds additional tweaks that make things > > prettier, cleaner, nicer, more efficient but not things that make the > > basic things work, and data integrity sounds pretty basic to me. > > But seeing the list of bad, broken or ill-designed hardware grow year by year, > I wonder whether we really want all that bloat in the kernel. > > > > > Or to give a counter example: the device advertises it can do media > > change, but actually cannot, right, it's not a floppy drive or cdrom > > driver after all? maybe hwdb would thus actually be the place for the > > opposite of the suggested fix: turn off the media change polling to > > reduce needless wakeups. > > I actually think it would be best if those work-arounds could be loadable as > module, and the vendors of broken hardware can provide the modules that > document their broken design as well. If you can come up with a way to do this (preferably in the form of a patch), that would be great. I can't think of any way to remove this information from the kernel. Alan Stern
