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 22:43:43 -0700 Message-ID: <4DF8468F.1080806@zytor.com> References: <20110614190850.GA13526@linux-mips.org> <4DF7C3CA.9050902@zytor.com> <20110614223404.GA30057@linux-mips.org> <4DF8329C.7000904@zytor.com> <20110615044016.GC10553@ericsson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110615044016.GC10553@ericsson.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Guenter Roeck Cc: "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , 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 List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On 06/14/2011 09:40 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:18:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> 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? >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right > Except in this case it's not wrong. It was done that way because it was discovered a long time ago that restricting drivers that were not *inherently* limited to specific platform just resulted in more bitrot and nasty surprises for the users who *did* need specific things after all, even though the maintainers had not thought so. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.