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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:24:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Sure, the driver will not be used on that architecture. But there is some
> > benefit in being able to cross-compile that driver on other architectures
> > anyway. Sometimes it will pick up missed #includes, sometimes printk
> > mismatches, various other assumptions which might be OK for x86 right now
> > but which might cause problems in the future.
>
> Should we have a NONNATIVE config option analogous to
> EXPERIMENTAL, so that it could be expressed as
> depends on AGP && (X86 || NONNATIVE)
> Seems to express the actual intentions.

Gah, that would be awful. It'd end up riddled through kconfigs everywhere.
It's also not really buying anything more than
(X86 || !X86) , at which point, they cancel each other out ;)

Dave

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