On Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:11:27 -0400, Jeffrey Walton said:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:52 AM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
Modern distros and their minimum requirements preclude EISA. One cannot meet a distros minimum requirements and have EISA.
Then file a bug with your distro to have it removed from their kernel images.
Thanks.
So does that mean it is not possible to disable EISA and its probes?
16:18:21 0 [~] uname -a Linux turing-police 5.9.0-rc2-next-20200827-dirty #779 SMP Sun Aug 30 04:22:57 EDT 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 16:19:38 0 [~] grep EISA /boot/config-`uname -r` CONFIG_HAVE_EISA=y # CONFIG_EISA is not set 16:19:55 0 [~] It's possible, because I'm positive this laptop isn't about to suddenly sprout an EISA bus that needs supporting. (That, and it's fun to watch a kernel build blow up because I have an oddball .config for the build :) Convincing a distro to remove it is a different question. And I'm sure they won't be interested in doing so unless you can prove "can't meet minimum requirements and have EISA". Can you name-and-shame some distros, and point at a minimum requirement that can't be met by a box that has EISA?