>>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:
Greg> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
...
>> Why a special handling for some special device that can be done in
>> user space?
Greg> How can this be done in userspace?
Well, userspace can't exactly inhibit the loading of the driver for that
interface, but userspace can unload the driver afterwards.
>> I would propose to drop ftdi_jtag_probe(), ftdi_8u2232c_probe() and
>> ftdi_stmclite_probe().
Greg> Just remove it? Care to provide a patch, with the reasoning why
Greg> this should be applied in the changelog comment and we can review
Greg> it there?
I would like to get some reasoning of the original patch authors
first. Perhaps there is some stunning reason I don't see yet.
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