Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:03:55 -0800

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:18:28PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Greg KH <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure that this isn't getting confused with the
> > drivers/char/misc.c interface instead of the "throw a bunch of randome
> > drivers into drivers/misc/" issue?
> 
> Sorry, I am not aware of this issue.
> 
> > Why would anything ever want to select MISC_DEVICES?  What happens if
> > you just remove that select line from the Kconfig?
> 
> Yes, I don´t understand the point of allowing the selection MISC_DEVICES.
> 
> IMHO it is potential for causing dependency issues.

Then remove that selection.  Nothing should be depending on a misc
driver, if it is, then that implies that this is more than just a "misc"
driver, and it should be moved elsewhere.

thanks,

greg k-h