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From: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, kristoffer@gaisler•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] GRETH: added option to disable a device node from bootloader.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:45:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2FFF2C.3050904@gaisler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110113.221238.97339127.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:

>From: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler•com>
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:25:27 +0100
>
>  
>
>>Signed-off-by: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler•com>
>>    
>>
>
>This is not how you do this.
>
>Simply not present the device in the OpenFirmware tree at all.  If you
>can make this special properly appear, you can also toss the device
>node away completely.
>
>There is zero reason whatsoever to create a special hack-job
>non-standardized device node properly to do this.
>  
>
I agree, I will remove it. The optional parameter should be a setting 
for a particular device rather that a "disable device" parameter.

Thanks,
Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-14  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-13  8:25 [PATCH 01/10] GRETH: added raw AMBA vendor/device number to match against Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 02/10] GRETH: added option to disable a device node from bootloader Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-14  6:12   ` David Miller
2011-01-14  7:45     ` Daniel Hellstrom [this message]
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 03/10] GRETH: added no_gbit option Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-14  6:13   ` David Miller
2011-01-14  7:51     ` Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 04/10] GRETH: added greth_compat_mode module parameter Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-14  6:14   ` David Miller
2011-01-14  8:10     ` Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 05/10] GRETH: fix opening/closing Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 06/10] GRETH: GBit transmit descriptor handling optimization Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 07/10] GRETH: fixed skb buffer memory leak on frame errors Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 08/10] GRETH: avoid writing bad speed/duplex when setting transfer mode Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 09/10] GRETH: handle frame error interrupts Daniel Hellstrom
2011-01-13  8:25 ` [PATCH 10/10] GRETH: resolve SMP issues and other problems Daniel Hellstrom

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