From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964995AbWGETZE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:25:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964999AbWGETZD (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:25:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:21460 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964995AbWGETZC (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:25:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:24:56 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Ben Pfaff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86 Message-ID: <20060705192456.GG1877@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Ben Pfaff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060705175725.GL1605@parisc-linux.org> <20060705111057.a03fbcec.akpm@osdl.org> <8764ib29m1.fsf@benpfaff.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8764ib29m1.fsf@benpfaff.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk