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From: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
To: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:07:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cda58cb80511300907y7b39e001w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051130165546.GD1053@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

2005/11/30, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>:
>
> If other CPUs use this then fine, but I find that having config options
> needlessly available to all architectures is annoying - especially when
> they are never used.
>
> Eg, would you ever expect to see a DM9000 ethernet device on an x86
> machine?  Probably not - there's far better PCI solutions now.
>
> So until someone says "I want to use this on such and such arch" I
> think it's better to keep it dependent on those we know are likely
> to support it.
>

That makes sens, specially if it's going to be used only by few arch.
I'll resend a new patch.

Thanks
--
               Franck

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-30 17:07 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 [this message]
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
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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