Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:56:10 +0100 | From | Franck <> | Subject | Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver |
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2005/11/30, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>: > From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:55:47 +0000 > > > If other CPUs use this then fine, but I find that having config options > > needlessly available to all architectures is annoying - especially when > > they are never used. > > > > Eg, would you ever expect to see a DM9000 ethernet device on an x86 > > machine? Probably not - there's far better PCI solutions now. > > If I, for example, make changes across the tree to SKB handling, I'd > like to be able to build as many drivers as possible and fix up the > compile warnings and build failures before _you_ get to see them. > > That's why it's a good idea to make drivers available to as many > platforms as possible, even if the hardware isn't necessarily > used there. >
this would mean that we should change almost all ethernet driver deps ?
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