From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20071012.150341.41635825.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1192038559.29746.127.camel@eliezer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eliezert@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com To: andi@firstfloor.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55823 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758453AbXJLWDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:03:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:47:28 +0200 > "Eliezer Tamir" 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 :-)