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Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1
Date 2016-05-21 18:40 +0200
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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:20 AM, William Breathitt Gray
<vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'll submit patches to resolve these warnings and errors.

No.

I will disable that ISA config option. We're not randomly making old
drivers available on modern platforms. Really.

We're not suddenly enabling ISA on x86-64 after having successfully
gotten rid of that insane crap long long ago.

If you have *specific* dribvers that are actually relevant for some
reason, make those ones available based on other options. For example,
we've had the ISA_DMA_API config option to say "we support a subset of
ISA, even when we don't actually want to ever see actual plug-in ISA
cards".

Your patch already resulted in having to add several cases of

- depends on ISA
+ depends on X86 && ISA

because you tried to randomly widen what "ISA" meant. No. No no no.

No more "let's randomly change what ISA is". Do this enabling one
driver at a time, or not at all. I'm not at all interested in seeing
some kind of generic "we will support random shit on modern platfoms"
crap. 99% of all drivers that depend on ISA have no maintainership,
and will never get any maintainership.

             Linus

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[GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-21 05:40 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-21 07:00 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-21 07:10 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-21 07:30 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-21 07:50 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-21 08:10 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 18:30 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-21 18:40 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-21 19:00 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 19:20 +0200
              Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-21 19:30 +0200

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