Bug#719680: Driver mv643xx_eth_port requests probe deferral
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 03:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 16:07 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 15:53 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 15:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 19:52 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 18:59 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 11:29 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > > > Could this be due to lack of CONFIG_MVMDIO on armel? I'm going to try
> > > > > > > that.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It appears to have done the trick on trunk (3.11-rc5).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The kernel doesn't find my disks though :-(
> > > > >
> > > > > More than likely the lack of CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD_ORION I should think.
> > > >
> > > > That does the trick but mkinitramfs also needs to be taught about the
> > > > new ehci-orion module which this produces.
> > >
> > > Maybe it should be including drivers/usb/host/* (although that currently
> > > includes some really obscure drivers we probably shouldn't build at
> > > all).
> >
> > That's an option I suppose, but it's a pretty long list, of which the
> > majority are, I expect, useless on any given platform I think. An
> > example of grep HCD on the kirkwood config is below (it won't even
> > include things whose dependencies aren't met as disabled).
> [...]
>
> That prompted me to remove some of the sillier HCD drivers from the
> config in trunk. It's also possible to pass a list of exclusions to
> copy_modules_dir, as we do for the hid and net directories.
My greps in linux/debian and kernel-wedge are completely failing to find
those lists. I can see the support for excluding entire udebs in kernel
wedge, but that is all I found.
Ian
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