From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: eliezert@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org,
mchan@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:03:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071012.150341.41635825.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73641c4cfz.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:47:28 +0200
> "Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@broadcom.com> writes:
>
>
> > * For now depend on x86 or x86_64, will add more architectures ASAP.
>
> Why is that? Linux drivers normally should not be architecture specific.
I totally agree, and the only way to weed out these kinds of
bugs is to allow it to build on other systems so users can
try it out and report what fails. Or even better, a motivated
developer tries it out and fixes the bugs for you :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-12 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 17:49 [PATCH][BNX2X] round three Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-10 19:52 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-11 0:59 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 17:53 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-11 21:40 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 1:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-11 17:13 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-11 1:54 ` [PATCH][BNX2X] round three - sparse warnings Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-11 17:21 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-12 14:47 ` [PATCH][BNX2X] round three Andi Kleen
2007-10-12 22:03 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-15 15:27 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-15 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 16:22 ` Eliezer Tamir
2007-10-15 16:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 19:42 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 19:38 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-15 22:00 ` David Miller
2007-10-15 22:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-16 15:00 ` Eliezer Tamir
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