From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:36 -0700 Message-ID: <4DF8329C.7000904@zytor.com> References: <20110614190850.GA13526@linux-mips.org> <4DF7C3CA.9050902@zytor.com> <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Chen Liqin , Chris Metcalf , Chris Zankel , "David S. Miller" , Fenghua Yu , Geert Uytterhoeven , Guan Xuetao , Helge Deller , Ingo Molnar , Ivan Kokshaysky , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Jesper Nilsson , Kyle McMartin , Lennox Wu , Matt Turner , Michal Simek , Mikael Starvik , Paul Mackerras , Pa On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be > used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test > matrix for no good reason. > I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS SoCs are offered on x86 platforms? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:36 -0700 Message-ID: <4DF8329C.7000904@zytor.com> References: <20110614190850.GA13526@linux-mips.org> <4DF7C3CA.9050902@zytor.com> <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Chen Liqin , Chris Metcalf , Chris Zankel , "David S. Miller" , Fenghua Yu , Geert Uytterhoeven , Guan Xuetao , Helge Deller , Ingo Molnar , Ivan Kokshaysky , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Jesper Nilsson , Kyle McMartin , Lennox Wu , Matt Turner , Michal Simek , Mikael Starvik , Paul Mackerras Pa List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be > used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test > matrix for no good reason. > I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS SoCs are offered on x86 platforms? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:19:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34746 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1490982Ab1FOETn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:19:43 +0200 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org ([IPv6:2001:470:861f:0:e269:95ff:fe35:9f3c]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.zytor.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5F4IfPk015770 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:45 -0700 Message-ID: <4DF8329C.7000904@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:36 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Chen Liqin , Chris Metcalf , Chris Zankel , "David S. Miller" , Fenghua Yu , Geert Uytterhoeven , Guan Xuetao , Helge Deller , Ingo Molnar , Ivan Kokshaysky , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Jesper Nilsson , Kyle McMartin , Lennox Wu , Matt Turner , Michal Simek , Mikael Starvik , Paul Mackerras , Paul Mundt , Richard Henderson , Russell King , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Tony Luck , x86@kernel.org, Yoshinori Sato , microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig References: <20110614190850.GA13526@linux-mips.org> <4DF7C3CA.9050902@zytor.com> <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 30391 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: hpa@zytor.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Return-Path: X-Keywords: X-UID: 12082 On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be > used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test > matrix for no good reason. > I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS SoCs are offered on x86 platforms? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.zytor.com (terminus.zytor.com [IPv6:2001:1868:205::10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC802B6F62 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:20:21 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4DF8329C.7000904@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:36 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig References: <20110614190850.GA13526@linux-mips.org> <4DF7C3CA.9050902@zytor.com> <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Chen Liqin , Paul Mackerras , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Guan Xuetao , Lennox Wu , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Nilsson , Russell King , Yoshinori Sato , Helge Deller , x86@kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" , Ingo Molnar , Geert Uytterhoeven , Matt Turner , Fenghua Yu , microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, Chris Metcalf , Mikael Starvik , Ivan Kokshaysky , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Richard Henderson , Chris Zankel , Michal Simek , Tony Luck , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin , Paul Mundt , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "David S. Miller" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be > used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test > matrix for no good reason. > I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS SoCs are offered on x86 platforms? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:36 -0700 Subject: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig In-Reply-To: <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> References: <20110614190850.GA13526@linux-mips.org> <4DF7C3CA.9050902@zytor.com> <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> Message-ID: <4DF8329C.7000904@zytor.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be > used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test > matrix for no good reason. > I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS SoCs are offered on x86 platforms? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.