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

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:36:30PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
...
> > > > The same is true for sysfs booleans. No need to "describe" "autobind" on
> > > > and off, right?)
> 
> Any progress in this regard? It seems to me that the solving of the few
> outstanding issues has dropped off some in the pre-holiday season ... now in
> the New Year, shall we try to solve them and get this feature into a
> mergeable state? Or have I missed something and is it already on its way
> into 2.6.16?

No, nothing happened after the two alternative patches posted to the
list. We still need to decide on the syfs interface (bool vs. text) and
the "simple patch to the individual drivers" or go for the "default module
parameter".

Kay