Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:17:27 -0500 | From | Dean Nelson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sgi-xp: only build for ia64-sn2 when CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC specified v.2 |
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 03:02:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:33:35 -0500 > Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> wrote: > > > For the time being build for ia64-sn2 alone when CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC is > > specified. > > > > It is 100% unclear (to me) why this change is being made.
It eliminates a dependency of the XP/XPC drivers on having the GRU driver insmod'd in order to insmod them, when running on an ia64-sn2 system.
On such a system the GRU driver serves no useful purpose.
> > Apparently this is considered a needed-in-2.6.28 change. But I don't > know why. > > If I knew that then I'd be in a better position to work out whether it > is also needed in 2.6.27.x, to which it also applies cleanly.
Having it applied to 2.6.27.x would be a good thing.
> IOW: better changelogs, please.
Sorry.
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