Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] usb: chipidea: add imx driver binding

[Richard Zhao <richard.zhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:06:26PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:56:52PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > > Do you think it's a good idea to let user select binding driver directly
> > > and the binding driver config depends on chipidea config?
> > 
> > I don't have a strong opinion on this, although I prefer it the way it
> > is now, because, imo:
> > 
> >   * in case of =m (and that's the only sane way of compiling it anyway),
> >     these all are compiled as modules, which you simply don't install if
> >     you don't want them;
> >   * all of them get compile-tested every time you change something in
> >     the driver, which is a good thing;
> 
> only true for $(ARCH) builds. I would like to see these drivers being
> compile tested on linux-next on all arches. Thus the patches I just
> sent.
The idea is great. But
- how can I make sure it pass for all arch? There' 27 folder in arch/.
- it's hard to predict one driver depends on what.
- for embedded kernel, people like built-in drivers, and people will
  have things they don't need at all.

Thanks
Richard
> 
> -- 
> balbi




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