On Mon, 2017-08-14 at 13:56 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > > Since the main concern about this change is breaking old systems that > > > might potentially have other peripherals hanging off the LPC bus, can > > > we define a new Kconfig option, with the default as 'N'? > > > > > > Mimi > > > > I guess that could make sense but I would like to hear feedback first. > > > > /Jarkko > > And I'm worried would that it'd be left for many years to come as an > option. I do not have any metrics what portion of hardware in the field > would break if this is turned on. > > It would slow down kernel testing as I would have to run tests for the > driver with that option turned on and off because it is a major shift > from how driver functions. And I have zero idea how long I would go on > doing this. > > One maybe a little bit better option would be to have a sysfs attribute > for this functionality (disable_burst_count). What do you think about > that?
That works! So we'll define a module_param named disable_burst_count, which can be specified on the boot command line. Mimi
