From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:41:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201094111.GA14726@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133426199.4117.179.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:36:39AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:02 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > We agree to disagree. For example, in all probability, ARM will never
> > see a TPM chip, yet it's offered for selection. Given that, does it
> > really make sense to offer it for ARM?
>
> You speak of _probability_. Yes, it makes sense to offer it as an
> _option_ for ARM. It just doesn't make sense to put it in the defconfig
> for any of the existing platforms.
>
> Nobody expects 'allyesconfig' to be something you'd actually want to
> _use_.
In which case why do we restrict floppy to only those machines which
could have floppy? Why do we restrict IDE to only those platforms
which may have IDE?
Hint: there's already a precident established for *not* offering
configuration options which are pointless.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-30 16:21 [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver Franck
2005-11-30 16:23 ` Russell King
2005-11-30 16:45 ` Franck
2005-11-30 16:55 ` Russell King
2005-11-30 17:07 ` Franck
2005-11-30 18:14 ` David Woodhouse
2005-11-30 19:02 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 8:36 ` David Woodhouse
2005-12-01 9:41 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-12-01 9:51 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-01 10:52 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 11:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-12-01 11:37 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 15:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-12-01 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-30 21:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-01 7:56 ` Franck
2005-12-01 23:17 ` Matan Ziv-Av
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