Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver

Franck
2005-12-01T07:56:12Z

2005/11/30, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:55:47 +0000
>
> > 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.
>
> If I, for example, make changes across the tree to SKB handling, I'd
> like to be able to build as many drivers as possible and fix up the
> compile warnings and build failures before _you_ get to see them.
>
> That's why it's a good idea to make drivers available to as many
> platforms as possible, even if the hardware isn't necessarily
> used there.
>

this would mean that we should change almost all ethernet driver deps ?

thanks
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Franck