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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: jdelvare@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pch_gbe depends on x86_32
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:05:58 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140516.130558.261976058112825591.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400246161.7973.162.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 06:16:01 -0700

> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 11:29 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> The pch_gbe driver is for a companion chip to the Intel Atom E600
>> series processors. These are 32-bit x86 processors so the driver is
>> only needed on X86_32.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
>> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
>> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/Kconfig |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> --- linux-3.15-rc5.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/Kconfig	2014-03-31 05:40:15.000000000 +0200
>> +++ linux-3.15-rc5/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/Kconfig	2014-05-16 11:20:28.453261606 +0200
>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>>  
>>  config PCH_GBE
>>  	tristate "OKI SEMICONDUCTOR IOH(ML7223/ML7831) GbE"
>> -	depends on PCI && (X86 || COMPILE_TEST)
>> +	depends on PCI && (X86_32 || COMPILE_TEST)
>>  	select MII
>>  	select PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH
>>  	---help---
>> 
>> 
> 
> Although its always nice to be able to compile it with x86_64 host,
> to make sure we do not add regressions when we change something in a
> core networking part.

That's what COMPILE_TEST is supposed to be for and it's still there :)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-16  9:29 [PATCH] net: pch_gbe depends on x86_32 Jean Delvare
2014-05-16 13:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-16 17:05   ` David Miller [this message]
2014-05-16 17:26     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-16 21:01 ` David Miller

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