warnings from drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Feb 25 09:06:23 EST 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:00:12PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > Sure, something like that is fine, but if the code really can't be a
> > module, why not just fix the Kconfig file to enforce this properly
> > instead?
> 
> That's the simplest approach, for use.  The TTY portion of the driver can
> be used as a module.  Is there any real value in loading a TTY driver as a
> module?

Depends on the hardware it supports :)

> In this case, the console support for byte channels would not be
> available.

Then it doesn't make sense, right?

thanks,

greg k-h



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