From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
"Benjamin Tissoires" <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>,
"Michał Kępień" <kernel@kempniu.pl>,
"Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
"Wolfram Sang" <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
"Steven Honeyman" <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>,
"Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"Jochen Eisinger" <jochen@penguin-breeder.org>,
"Gabriele Mazzotta" <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
"Mario Limonciello" <Mario_Limonciello@dell.com>,
"Alex Hung" <alex.hung@canonical.com>,
"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Platform Driver" <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: i801: Register optional lis3lv02d i2c device on Dell machines
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 11:53:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75Vd2WQRHiVpqCeeNEdcup4peD_28SF1--cRr+uqAk-yY0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201701032139.13061@pali>
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With Michał we already discussed about it, see emails. Basically you can
> enable/disable kernel modules at compile time or blacklist at runtime
> (or even chose what will be compiled into vmlinux and what as external
> .ko module). Some distributions blacklist i2c-i801.ko module...
But you understand that any of compile/not compile is not an option, right?
The case which we face will be both of them, if possible, will be
compiled as modules.
Blacklisting means making your problem the actual user's one. Not good.
> And
> there can be also problem with initialization of i2c-i801 driver (fix is
> in commit a7ae81952cda, but does not have to work at every time!). So
> that move on whitelisted machines can potentially cause disappearance of
> /dev/freefall and users will not have hdd protection which is currently
> working.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-04 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-27 12:52 [PATCH] i2c: i801: Register optional lis3lv02d i2c device on Dell machines Pali Rohár
2016-12-27 13:43 ` Wolfram Sang
2016-12-27 13:51 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-27 22:15 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-12-27 22:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2016-12-28 7:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-12-28 9:05 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-28 14:03 ` Wolfram Sang
2016-12-29 4:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2016-12-28 8:38 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-28 14:02 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-01-04 9:45 ` Jean Delvare
2016-12-29 8:29 ` Michał Kępień
2016-12-29 9:00 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-29 13:47 ` Michał Kępień
2016-12-29 14:17 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-29 21:09 ` Michał Kępień
2016-12-29 21:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-03 9:06 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-03 9:23 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-03 18:38 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-03 18:50 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-03 18:58 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-01-03 19:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-03 20:05 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-03 20:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-03 20:39 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-03 20:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-04 8:18 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 9:05 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 9:18 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 10:13 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 10:21 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 10:32 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 11:22 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 12:00 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 13:02 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 16:06 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 17:39 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 17:46 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-01-04 17:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-04 21:49 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 21:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-04 21:55 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-01-04 22:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-04 22:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-05 2:20 ` [PATCH] i2c: do not enable fall back to Host Notify by default kbuild test robot
2017-01-05 2:21 ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-05 8:54 ` [PATCH] i2c: i801: Register optional lis3lv02d i2c device on Dell machines Pali Rohár
2017-01-05 9:26 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 18:50 ` Jean Delvare
2017-01-04 9:53 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2017-01-04 10:25 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 11:35 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-04 12:33 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-03 21:29 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 6:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-01-04 9:13 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2017-01-04 9:25 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-03 20:20 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-01-04 10:18 ` Jean Delvare
2017-01-07 12:49 ` Wolfram Sang
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