Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/pnp/: possible cleanups | From | Adam Belay <> | Date | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:44:56 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:23 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> wrote: > > > > This patch essential makes it impossible for PnP protocols to be > > modules. Currently, they are all in-kernel. If that is acceptable..., > > then this patch looks fine to me. Any comments? > > You're the maintainer...
I've been holding off on making many changes to PnP at the moment, because I have been considering replacing it with a new (more modern and ACPI capable) ISA/LPC bridge driver. This work would likely begin after my PCI bridge driver rewrite is finished and merged (as the PCI work is in some ways a prerequisite).
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111023821617705&w=2
Still, if there are changes to fix actual bugs, then I'm all for them.
Also a few features could be added. Specifically PnPBIOS hotplug/docking station support. If anyone's interested, I may implement it (and it would use some functions that were removed by this patch). Furthermore, ISAPnP could be made a module. PnPBIOS probably couldn't.
> > If someone converts a protocol to be moduar, presumably they will re-add > the needed exports to support that.
Correct.
> > Are there likely to be any out-of-tree modular protocols in existence? >
Not that I'm aware of.
So in short, I'd rather not remove them, because they take away from the original design of the PnP layer.
Thanks, Adam
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