Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:32:53 -0500 | From | "David P. Reed" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. |
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Rene Herman wrote: > No, most definitely not. Having the user select udelay or none through > the kernel config and then the kernel deciding "ah, you know what, > I'll know better and use port access anyway" is _utterly_ broken > behaviour. Software needs to listen to its master. > When acting as an ordinary user, the .config is beyond my control (except on Gentoo). It is in control of the distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, ... but perhaps not Gentoo). I think the distro guys want a default behavior that is set in .config, with quirk overrides being done when needed. And of course the user in his/her boot params gets the final say.
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