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From: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86_64
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On Fri, Dec 05 2014 at 08:18:18 AM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> On Thu,  4 Dec 2014 13:27:29 -0800
> Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> mic/mpssd along with MIC drivers are currently only usable on
>> x86_64. So build mic/mpssd only for x86_64 to avoid build breaks on
>> big-endian systems.
>
> I can certainly apply this.  But it seems to me that this kind of code
> doesn't belong in the documentation directory.  How about a patch to move
> it to tools/ ?

Yes, let's resolve the situation for now and then we'll submit another
patch soon to move it to tools.