Re: [PATCH] Introduce BROKEN_ON_64BIT facility

Jeff Garzik
2006-10-02T09:54:30Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
>
>> Add a broken-on-64bit option, similar to the existing broken-on-smp
>> config option. This is just the first pass, marking the obvious
>> candidates.
>
> When I had this problem in the past I just used && !64BIT.
> How is this new option different?

Same reason why we have CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP separate from CONFIG_SMP.

> AFAIK I2O got fixed too. Do you have any evidence that it is really
> broken on 64bit?

i2o_config did not. Just read the code, it's obvious...

Jeff