linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1

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Message-ID: <20151105164425.GB10196@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2015 08:44:25 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:43:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1.  Lots of different
> > driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest with the
> > addition of some new platforms that are now supported.
> 
> Hmm. So if you answer 'N' to "System Trace Module devices", it will
> still ask you about the dummy STM driver, and it will still ask you
> about doing a console over STM devices.
> 
> That seems a bit disingenuous, no?

Yeah, that's not good, I only tested it with it enabled.  I'll go add
some dependancies to the Kconfig file, as there are none for those
options, I missed that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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