linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] fastboot: use a DMI match table to set defaults for port-disable

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Message-ID: <20080812043718.038d3e56@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:37:18 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fastboot: use a DMI match table to set defaults for
 port-disable

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:10:09 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > if you solder the board... well you can add a tiny kernel patch or
> > change the dmi ;)
> 
> Lots of people have them modified and you can even buy them
> pre-modded as an end user. It needs to be simpler than hacking your
> kernel. In fact this argues that the port disables should be handled
> by user space not by the kernel ?

which is a commandline option then; because once userspace runs you've
already paid the price in terms of boottime otherwise and would make
the idea entirely moot.


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