linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk.

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Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:30:19 -0800
From:	Philip Langdale <philipl@...rt.org>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pierre Ossman <pierre@...man.eu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk.

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:40:01 +0200
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:

 
> Of course, I can put that under config condition, that users that are
> sure that have no such device could save few hundreds of bytes.
> However a distro probably will enable this option.

Yeah, this is the only way I can think of to make it optional - and
i guess we could actually reuse the current CONFIG value to make it
transparent. I kind of like this, but there's no precedent for it
in PCI quirks as far as I can tell.
 
> I also agree that I need to print some notice to user about device
> being disabled.
> 
> Aside from being almost an 1:1 copy of original driver, this patch was
> sort of RFC, so I update it soon.

Thanks!

--phil
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