From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:43:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF8468F.1080806@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110615044016.GC10553@ericsson.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 19:08 [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig Ralf Baechle
2011-06-14 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-14 21:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-15 4:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-15 7:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-15 15:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-15 15:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-15 9:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-15 11:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-06-14 22:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-06-15 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-15 4:40 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-06-15 5:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-06-15 8:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-06-15 14:36 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-06-14 20:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-06-14 22:08 ` Luck, Tony
2011-06-15 4:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-15 7:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-15 15:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-15 1:24 ` Guan Xuetao
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