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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Schedule slot suggestion- Generic drivers - core topic
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:43:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161028214306.GA12838@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1610282325150.31629@cbobk.fhfr.pm>

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:29:00PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:16:59PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > Having some generic device driver load, prior to a specific driver,
> > > and issues / maintenance issues that come with the hacks currently in
> > > place to support this / re-invent the wheel to support this per
> > > subsystem.
> > 
> > We have hacks for this today?  What do you mean by this, quirks?
> 
> I have to maintain a device-id list that explicitly enumerates "these 
> devices can be handled by generic driver, but would better be handled by 
> specific driver", in the generic driver itself. Which is horrible.

Yes, I agree, but so far, it's the only way we know how :(

> It'd be nice for the specific driver to be able to claim this property 
> somehow.

I also agree, it would be "nice", but I have yet to see a way to do this
in a generic way :(

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-28 21:16 Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-28 21:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-10-28 21:23 ` Greg KH
2016-10-28 21:25   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-10-28 21:29   ` Jiri Kosina
2016-10-28 21:38     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-10-28 21:44       ` Greg KH
2016-10-28 21:51         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-10-29  1:12           ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-10-28 21:43     ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-10-31  2:13 ` Rob Herring
2016-10-31  4:33   ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-10-31  4:47   ` Theodore Ts'o

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