From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make OLPC camera driver depend on x86.
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:40:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061212174055.6b60c134@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061212153956.GH8509@redhat.com>
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:39:56 -0500
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:12:52AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > - depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
> > > + depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2 && X86_32
> >
> > Any particular reason why?
>
> Just seemed odd to be offered the option when I was building
> an ia64 kernel given its extremely unlikely to ever appear there.
It means we catch portability bugs early and people changing core code
catch problems even if their platform is not X86_32. The practice for
almost all out drivers is thus not to put in arch dependancies unless
they genuinely do not build on arbitary platforms.
NAK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 14:52 Make OLPC camera driver depend on x86 Dave Jones
2006-12-12 15:12 ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-12-12 15:39 ` Dave Jones
2006-12-12 17:40 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-12 17:42 ` Dave Jones
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2006-12-12 23:49 Chuck Ebbert
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