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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:40:16 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig
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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

Guenter