Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver

David S. Miller
2005-12-01T09:51:39Z

From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:41:11 +0000

> In which case why do we restrict floppy to only those machines which
> could have floppy? Why do we restrict IDE to only those platforms
> which may have IDE?

These two examples require platform level support via
an asm/*.h header file.

Whereas the driver's we are talking about use portable
interfaces that should be available across the board.

So, bad example.