From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932105AbcGAPiw (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:38:52 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:33032 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166AbcGAPit (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:38:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160701150015.GQ6247@sirena.org.uk> References: <20160628155107.GP17217@sirena.org.uk> <20160628183825.GS17217@sirena.org.uk> <20160628205736.GE17217@sirena.org.uk> <20160629180211.GF6247@sirena.org.uk> <20160701082548.GE6247@sirena.org.uk> <20160701150015.GQ6247@sirena.org.uk> From: Michal Suchanek Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 17:37:53 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when manually binding driver To: Mark Brown Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-spi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1 July 2016 at 17:00, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> On 1 July 2016 at 10:25, Mark Brown wrote: > >> > It's been repeatedly suggested to you that the tooling for this stuff >> > could use some work. Please go and put some effort into that rather >> > than continuing this thread which is accomplishing nothing. > >> You completely miss the point. No tooling will make people reconfigure >> the kernel when the configuration in fact stays the same. > >> Sure the tooling does need work. And it would help getting the cases >> when the tooling is NOT needed out of the way. > > I understand the problem perfectly, no amount of repeating yourself is > going to change the problems that the bodge you are trying to force in > creates for other users and the maintainability of the system. Can you, please, specify what problems this patch creates for other users and maintainability? Without stating the problems of this solution clearly or proposing alternate workable solution there is not much that can be done. Thanks Michal