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From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: chris@zankel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] xtensa: don't offer PARPORT_PC
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:33:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4803BF9D.4070304@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414195551.GE26885@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

Adrian Bunk wrote:

>  config PARPORT_PC
>  	tristate "PC-style hardware"
>  	depends on (!SPARC64 || PCI) && !SPARC32 && !M32R && !FRV && \
> -		(!M68K || ISA) && !MN10300
> +		(!M68K || ISA) && !MN10300 && !XTENSA

Pardon a possibly stupid question here, but would it not make more sense 
to code the architectures for which these various devices *are* 
possible, rather than requiring each architecture to go through the 
entire config file and add their own "we don't do this" for many entries?

As seen, it is easy for them to be missed, hence all these recent patches.

The way I look at it, it is a lot easier to require that the arch 
maintainer adds specific entries to get their particular hardware 
working, rather than go through a working setup and figure out how much 
they can take away before it breaks.

Rogan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14 19:55 [2.6 patch] xtensa: don't offer PARPORT_PC Adrian Bunk
2008-04-14 20:33 ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2008-04-14 21:34   ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 22:13   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-14 23:00     ` Chris Zankel

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