Re: [GIT PULL] char/misc driver patches for 4.4-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 05 2015 - 02:04:48 EST


On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of different
> driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest with the
> addition of some new platforms that are now supported.

Hmm. So if you answer 'N' to "System Trace Module devices", it will
still ask you about the dummy STM driver, and it will still ask you
about doing a console over STM devices.

That seems a bit disingenuous, no?

Linus
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