Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:24:56 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86 |
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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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