Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:33:40 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver |
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:41:11AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > In which case why do we restrict floppy to only those machines which > could have floppy?
Because the floopy drivers needs asm/floppy.h and wouldn't build on others.
> Why do we restrict IDE to only those platforms > which may have IDE?
Dito with asm/ide.h
these are very old drivers where people weren't used to abstractions that would allow to write them platform-independent. For any driver that doesn't have an actual platform depency making it conditional is a bad idea.
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