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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:32:53 -0500 From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com> To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, rol@...be.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. Rene Herman wrote: > No, most definitely not. Having the user select udelay or none through > the kernel config and then the kernel deciding "ah, you know what, > I'll know better and use port access anyway" is _utterly_ broken > behaviour. Software needs to listen to its master. > When acting as an ordinary user, the .config is beyond my control (except on Gentoo). It is in control of the distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, ... but perhaps not Gentoo). I think the distro guys want a default behavior that is set in .config, with quirk overrides being done when needed. And of course the user in his/her boot params gets the final say. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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