Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver

Franck
2005-11-30T17:07:10Z

2005/11/30, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>:
>
> If other CPUs use this then fine, but I find that having config options
> needlessly available to all architectures is annoying - especially when
> they are never used.
>
> Eg, would you ever expect to see a DM9000 ethernet device on an x86
> machine? Probably not - there's far better PCI solutions now.
>
> So until someone says "I want to use this on such and such arch" I
> think it's better to keep it dependent on those we know are likely
> to support it.
>

That makes sens, specially if it's going to be used only by few arch.
I'll resend a new patch.

Thanks
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Franck