Re: [PATCH 7/8] Kconfig: silicon backplane dependency.

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 22:45 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> This is wrong. SSB does not depend on PCI or PCMCIA.
> SSB can (and does) stay very well on its own feet and
> can be the main system bus.
> Most Linksys WRT routers work that way. They have no
> PCI bus, but a SSB bus instead.
> 
> Nevertheless, I'm not sure what your problem really is.
> Does a s390 machine exist with a B44 card? I doubt it.
> So what about the following: We simply add
> a DEPENDS ON !S390 to both SSB and B44.
> I really thing that is the right fix for this.
> The patch above is clearly not, as it breaks things for
> embedded devices without PCI or PCMCIA bus.

Ok, thanks. I will change the patch accordingly.

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