grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver]

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 12/13/05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
>
> And another thing is the prameters textual value like "auto" and
> "manual". If we never add a third option to it, we may stick with the sysfs
> boolean, which is smaller and simpler to implement. Not sure what's the
> best here.

I prefer textual values because:

1. They self-descriptive
2. They already used in kernel, so if you switch to numeric you'll
break userrspace
3. Implementation difference is insignificant.

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Dmitry