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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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