linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] media: tea5764: reconcile Kconfig symbol and macro

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Message-ID: <1319995903.14409.42.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
Date:	Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:31:43 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] media: tea5764: reconcile Kconfig symbol and
 macro

On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 10:24 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/30/11 10:12, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > 2) I'm not sure why things are done that way. Why can't builtin drivers
> > and loadable drivers default to identical values? But perhaps I'm just
> > misunderstanding the code.
> 
> They could default to identical values.

That would make the cleaning up I'm trying to do now somewhat easier. It
would allow to simplify the drivers a bit too.

> Maybe someone thinks that
> it's more difficult to pass parameters to builtin drivers so they
> just try to use some sane defaults for them instead, whereas it's
> easy (easier) to pass parameters to loadable modules.  ??

Perhaps Mauro or the people at linux-media know the reasoning here. Or
they can show us that I didn't parse the code correctly, of course.


Paul Bolle

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