Re: dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:01:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes.
>  > > 
>  > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
>  > > 
>  > > --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig~	2005-11-14 19:23:45.000000000 -0500
>  > > +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig	2005-11-14 19:24:18.000000000 -0500
>  > > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config EFI_PCDP
>  > >  
>  > >  config DELL_RBU
>  > >  	tristate "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs"
>  > > +	depends on X86
>  > >  	select FW_LOADER
>  > >  	help
>  > >  	 Say m if you want to have the option of updating the BIOS for your
>  > 
>  > Does it not compile on other architectures?  If it does, there's an
>  > argument for leaving it there, for compile coverage.
> 
> If this were a "only works on non-x86" driver, I'd agree, but
> x86 drivers probably get way more coverage than any arch already,
> so I don't we really gain much by having this available on
> archs that can't run it.
> 

Where's the advantage in removing it from non-x86 builds?