From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:14:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119061459.GA7335@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051118220144.11671174.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:01:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig~ 2005-11-14 19:23:45.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2005-11-14 19:24:18.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config EFI_PCDP
> >
> > config DELL_RBU
> > tristate "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs"
> > + depends on X86
> > select FW_LOADER
> > help
> > Say m if you want to have the option of updating the BIOS for your
>
> Does it not compile on other architectures? If it does, there's an
> argument for leaving it there, for compile coverage.
If this were a "only works on non-x86" driver, I'd agree, but
x86 drivers probably get way more coverage than any arch already,
so I don't we really gain much by having this available on
archs that can't run it.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-19 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 21:29 dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64] Dave Jones
2005-11-19 6:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-19 6:14 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-11-19 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-19 6:23 ` Dave Jones
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