From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:24:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060705192456.GG1877@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8764ib29m1.fsf@benpfaff.org>
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:24:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Sure, the driver will not be used on that architecture. But there is some
> > benefit in being able to cross-compile that driver on other architectures
> > anyway. Sometimes it will pick up missed #includes, sometimes printk
> > mismatches, various other assumptions which might be OK for x86 right now
> > but which might cause problems in the future.
>
> Should we have a NONNATIVE config option analogous to
> EXPERIMENTAL, so that it could be expressed as
> depends on AGP && (X86 || NONNATIVE)
> Seems to express the actual intentions.
Gah, that would be awful. It'd end up riddled through kconfigs everywhere.
It's also not really buying anything more than
(X86 || !X86) , at which point, they cancel each other out ;)
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 17:57 [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86 Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-05 18:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-05 18:24 ` Ben Pfaff
2006-07-05 19:24 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-07-05 19:21 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-05 19:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05 19:36 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-05 21:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-07 7:31 ` Indrek Kruusa
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