Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:20:43 +0100 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver |
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On 12/1/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:11:24PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On 12/1/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:51:15AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > So, bad example. > > > > > > Not in the IDE case. Bart restricted IDE to a smaller number of ARM > > > platforms, plus any that had PCMCIA. There is no such restriction > > > in the asm-arm/*.h header files. > > > > When I did this change there was such restriction in asm-arm/mach-*/ide.h > > files (some platforms just lacked ide.h making IDE build break for them). > > > > IDE is a bad example anyway because of legacy ordering issues etc etc. > > Okay. Given the general concensus in this thread, can this be removed > now?
No, I didn't say that I agree with DaveM. :)
For IDE keeping restriction makes it much easier to maintain (i.e. to answer questions like "why is this ugly hack needed?").
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