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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] is Kconfig a bit hard sometimes?
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:26:03 -0700
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > The config options that don't enable drivers, but enable particular
> > behavior - *those* are actually the nastiest ones.  
> 
> Ah yes... addressing this with the meta thingy would certainly be
> nice. It can help close one of the big gaps and flaws of
> localmodconfig.
> 

I also run into issues with things like USB sticks with FAT filesystem.
If no stick has been plugged in the module isn't loaded, and therefore the module
doesn't get included. This is a general problem with hot pluggable hardware.