From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Steve.Glendinning@smsc.com
Cc: vapier@gentoo.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Ian.Saturley@smsc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building on Blackfin systems
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:37:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090608.143710.83724675.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF063E0F2B.DD999013-ON802575CF.006B45BD-802575CF.006BB3F8@smsc.com>
From: Steve.Glendinning@smsc.com
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:36:24 +0100
> You're right, there's nothing "special" about ARM | SUPERH other than they
> cover all the in-tree platforms using smsc911x. The aim was to hide this
> option from menuconfig on x86 etc, where this device is extremely unlikely
> to be found. Maybe there's a better way of doing this?
I sincerely doubt keeping this out of x86's menuconfig so important,
really.
So many devices are available for powerpc and sparc64 that will never
appear there, however those drivers now get build validated on those
platforms and it's therefore a net-win.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-08 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-06 0:37 [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building on Blackfin systems Mike Frysinger
2009-06-06 0:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] netdev: smsc911x: add missing __devexit_p() usage Mike Frysinger
2009-06-08 7:10 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <1244248640-22699-2-git-send-email-vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-08 19:37 ` Steve.Glendinning-sdUf+H5yV5I
2009-06-08 7:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building on Blackfin systems David Miller
2009-06-08 19:36 ` Steve.Glendinning
2009-06-08 21:29 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allowbuilding " Hennerich, Michael
2009-06-08 21:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-06-08 21:50 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building " Mike Frysinger
[not found] ` <8bd0f97a0906081450s6b471d30p56d86e31ba708730-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-09 8:04 ` Steve.Glendinning-sdUf+H5yV5I
2009-06-09 8:22 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building on any system Mike Frysinger
2009-06-09 8:37 ` David Miller
2009-06-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] " Mike Frysinger
2009-06-09 10:59 ` David Miller
2009-06-09 11:08 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2009-06-09 12:21 ` David Miller
2009-06-09 12:23 ` David Miller
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