linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] USB: Add HCD fastboot

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Message-Id: <200808062034.43899.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:34:43 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] USB: Add HCD fastboot

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Simon Arlott wrote:
> +ifndef CONFIG_USB_FASTBOOT
> +  obj-y                                += $(tmp-y)
> +endif
>  
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_ACM)          += class/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_PRINTER)      += class/
> @@ -34,3 +40,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_USB)             += misc/
>  
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_ATM)          += atm/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_SPEEDTOUCH)   += atm/
> +
> +ifdef CONFIG_USB_FASTBOOT
> +  obj-y                                += $(tmp-y)
> +endif

If you want to do such stuff, don't be conditional.
Just change it so USB is *always* earlier.

We really don't need to make boot sequences become
even harder to understand/predict.

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