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

[Christian Zoz]

On Mon, Jan 09, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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".

I vote for an boolean interface (autobind) and the "default module
parameter". Boolean because autobind is self-explanatory and
light-weight. And default module parameter bebause i hate fiddling
with different driver behavior.

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ciao, christian

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