From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen),
alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:10:36 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208071110.g77BAaH05474@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020807130417.A19231@wotan.suse.de> from "Andi Kleen" at Aug 07, 2002 01:04:17 PM
> dep_bool .... $CONFIG_X86_32
>
> Would that be acceptable for you? (ok that would not cover ppc32 for
> example, but they may have other issues with the driver)
dep_bool doesnt have negations, bracketing or or operations. Thats why
CML1 can't handle it but CML2 probably could have
> They will discover it when they don't find a driver for an device and
> can then find the disabled configuration and look into fixing it
> (for someone able to fix the driver checking the configuration should
> be trivial)
No they'll mail you asking where it has gone
> In my opinion it is just not acceptable when the enable the driver by
> mistake or load the wrong module and it crashes.
Thats a packaging issue for distributed prebuilt kernel trees. Also crashes
are the only way you are going to find out what needs fixing, who wants to
fix it and the like
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200208062329.g76NTqP30962@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-08-07 10:01 ` Linux 2.4.20-pre1 Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 11:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 10:41 ` 64bit clean drivers was " Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 11:04 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 11:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-08-07 11:18 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 11:56 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 13:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 16:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-08 15:14 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-08 16:49 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-08 16:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 4:15 ` [patch] config language dep_* enhancements Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 14:43 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-09 15:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-08-12 10:38 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-09 16:10 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-12 11:04 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-12 14:46 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-12 19:45 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 21:40 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2002-08-12 22:13 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 22:15 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-12 22:32 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 22:47 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-12 23:17 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 23:32 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-13 3:35 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 0:03 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 7:54 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-13 3:33 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 9:32 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-13 10:32 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
[not found] ` <3D587483.1C459694@alphalink.com.au>
2002-08-13 3:39 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 4:31 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 14:00 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-13 15:53 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 18:48 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-14 1:13 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 3:28 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 4:35 ` [patch] kernel config 3/N - move sound into drivers/media Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 5:08 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-14 5:49 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 10:56 ` [kbuild-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 12:20 ` S390 vs S390x, was " Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-14 17:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 18:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-14 21:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 19:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-14 22:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 6:14 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 6:31 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 8:16 ` Russell King
2002-08-14 6:01 ` [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements Greg Banks
2002-08-14 8:18 ` Russell King
2002-08-14 14:22 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 1:28 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-15 2:33 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 3:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 18:43 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-13 20:48 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 1:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 1:42 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 2:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 2:57 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 4:39 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-14 5:35 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 11:40 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-15 1:52 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-15 3:30 ` John Alvord
2002-08-16 2:24 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 9:46 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-15 14:43 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-15 20:12 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-16 2:08 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-16 10:54 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-19 9:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-19 10:20 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-20 14:10 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-20 17:51 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-19 20:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-08-20 14:28 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-23 15:18 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-23 23:03 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-24 12:43 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 1:19 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-12 15:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 3:23 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-13 16:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-08-13 16:20 ` [kbuild-devel] " Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 0:22 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 20:14 ` Get rid of shell based Config.in parsers? Sam Ravnborg
2002-08-14 22:21 ` [kbuild-devel] " Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-08 23:57 ` 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1 Thunder from the hill
2002-08-08 19:23 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-08 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-08 20:19 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-08 17:42 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 10:21 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-09 11:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 12:07 ` Russell King
2002-08-09 12:49 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 14:53 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-09 22:37 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-08 20:37 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-08 20:51 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-07 17:31 ` Thunder from the hill
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