From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] media: tea5764: reconcile Kconfig symbol and macro
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:31:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319995903.14409.42.camel@x61.thuisdomein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EAD8832.9090509@xenotime.net>
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 10:24 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/30/11 10:12, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > 2) I'm not sure why things are done that way. Why can't builtin drivers
> > and loadable drivers default to identical values? But perhaps I'm just
> > misunderstanding the code.
>
> They could default to identical values.
That would make the cleaning up I'm trying to do now somewhat easier. It
would allow to simplify the drivers a bit too.
> Maybe someone thinks that
> it's more difficult to pass parameters to builtin drivers so they
> just try to use some sane defaults for them instead, whereas it's
> easy (easier) to pass parameters to loadable modules. ??
Perhaps Mauro or the people at linux-media know the reasoning here. Or
they can show us that I didn't parse the code correctly, of course.
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-30 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-30 12:08 Paul Bolle
2011-10-30 16:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-10-30 17:12 ` Paul Bolle
2011-10-30 17:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-10-30 17:31 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2011-11-03 18:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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