Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system

Tom Rini
2001-12-29T23:12:47Z

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
> > > unless (ISA or PCI) suppress dependent IDE
> >
> > Just a minor point, but what about non-PCI/ISA ide?
>
> The CML1 rules seem to imply that this set is empty.

It's not. In fact, I don't really see that implication either. There's
lots of drivers hidden under a CONFIG_PCI check, but nothing under an
ISA check. From ~line 104 to ~136 I suspect are all non-PCI and non-ISA
chipsets.

> > > unless (X86 and PCI and EXPERIMENTAL) or PPC or ARM or SPARC suppress dependent IEEE1394
> >
> > Wouldn't the experimental be global? And maybe the PCI too?
>
> I don't understand what change you are suggesting.

unless EXPERIMENTAL and (((X86 or PPC or SPARC) and PCI) or ARM)
Since the experimental tag I believe would be a global thing, and I'm
thinking that ARM probably implies !PCI (since it does so often, but I
don't know for sure..).

> > > It seems to me *extremely* unlikely that a typical patch from a PPC
> > > maintainer would mess with any of these! They're rules that are likely to
> > > be written once at the time a new port is added to the tree and seldom or
> > > ever changed afterwards.
> >
> > But they will be modified for new arch X, or when constraint X (like
> > PCI) is removed.
>
> Yes.

Not typical than, but it could/will happen, from arch maintainer Y.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)