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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:18:36 -0700
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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

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