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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org,
	Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, chrisw@sous-sol.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version.
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:09:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060704180953.GI1605@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607041442.03913.arnd@arndb.de>

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:42:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 01:35, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > We don't (yet) have a CONFIG_MMIO. ?If we were to have one, I would
> > expect it to be akin to SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MMIO, VIA_RHINE_MMIO,
> > SUNDANCE_MMIO and TULIP_MMIO. ?ie indicating a preference between PIO
> > and MMIO rather than indicating the availability of MMIO.
> 
> Hmm, maybe my terminology wasn't so good, at least you misunderstood
> what I wanted to express. PIO is more or less a 386ism, so I tend to
> view that as a special case of MMIO. The point with  s390 is that there
> is neither PIO nor MMIO, which really makes it impossible to use most
> of the device drivers, even if you could connect the hardware ;-).

I understood what you wanted; I was just explaining why it's a bad name.
CONFIG_STD_IO might be a good name.  CONFIG_PCI_IO might be confusing.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-04 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-30 12:26 [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 12:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 12:54   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 12:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 13:04   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 13:09     ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 13:20       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 13:28       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 14:05         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 14:15           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 14:20           ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-03 23:15             ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-03 23:35               ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-04 12:42                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-04 13:08                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-07-04 15:23                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-04 18:09                   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-07-01  2:38           ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-30 14:13       ` Kyle McMartin
2006-06-30 14:20         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 17:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 18:28   ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-03  9:10   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-03  9:20     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03 10:35       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 16:19   ` [Kconfig] add disable command (was Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version) Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 19:27     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-07 16:19   ` [Kconfig] use " Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 19:48     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-08 23:42       ` Ralf Baechle

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