[PATCH v2 05/12] usb: chipidea: add imx driver binding
Richard Zhao
richard.zhao at freescale.com
Tue May 22 06:31:40 EDT 2012
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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