From: "Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini)" <nmusini@cisco.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"hare@suse.de" <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] snic:initial submission of snic driver for Cisco SCSI HBA
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 04:21:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D17F6556.25AFA%nmusini@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431707688.26877.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Hi James,
Added dependency in Kconfig for x86 to avoid its inclusion on other
architectures. Will it be help, if it is changed to x86_64?.
Thanks
simha
On 15/05/15 10:04 pm, "James Bottomley"
<James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:08 +0000, Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini) wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> >>This doesn't build on 32 bits. Is it supposed to be 64 bit only?
>> Yes please, x86_64 arch only.
>
>For the kernel, we don't usually accept architectural restrictions.
>You're perfectly entitled to support only the architectures you wish
>(and put a warning in the driver if you want) but we do need the code to
>be endian and bitwidth clean because we find it helps with maintenance
>and checking (the ppc build systems pick up quite a few snafus that the
>x86 ones don't).
>
>James
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-18 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 9:23 [PATCH v5 0/9] snic:initial submission of snic driver for Cisco SCSI HBA Narsimhulu Musini
2015-04-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] snic: snic module infrastructure Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 17:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] snic:Add interrupt, resource firmware interfaces Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 17:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] snic:Add meta request, handling of meta requests Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 17:56 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] snic:Add snic target discovery Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 17:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] snic:add SCSI handling, AEN, and fwreset handling Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 18:00 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:23 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] snic:Add low level queuing interfaces Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 18:01 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:24 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] snic:Add sysfs entries to list stats and trace data Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 18:02 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:24 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] snic:Add event tracing to capture IO events Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 18:03 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-04-22 9:24 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] snic:Add Makefile, patch Kconfig, MAINTAINERS Narsimhulu Musini
2015-05-11 18:03 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-15 15:49 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] snic:initial submission of snic driver for Cisco SCSI HBA James Bottomley
2015-05-15 16:08 ` Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini)
2015-05-15 16:34 ` James Bottomley
2015-05-18 4:21 ` Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini) [this message]
2015-05-18 14:35 ` James Bottomley
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