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

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1
Date	2015-11-05 17:50 +0100
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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@linuxfoundation.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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[GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-11-04 23:20 +0100
  Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-11-05 08:10 +0100
    Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-11-05 17:50 +0100
      Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-06 15:10 +0100
        Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-06 15:40 +0100
          Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-06 15:50 +0100

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