lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2001]   [Dec]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system
    Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
    > > unless (ISA or PCI) suppress dependent IDE
    >
    > Just a minor point, but what about non-PCI/ISA ide?

    The CML1 rules seem to imply that this set is empty.

    > > unless (X86 and PCI and EXPERIMENTAL) or PPC or ARM or SPARC suppress dependent IEEE1394
    >
    > Wouldn't the experimental be global? And maybe the PCI too?

    I don't understand what change you are suggesting.

    > > It seems to me *extremely* unlikely that a typical patch from a PPC
    > > maintainer would mess with any of these! They're rules that are likely to
    > > be written once at the time a new port is added to the tree and seldom or
    > > ever changed afterwards.
    >
    > But they will be modified for new arch X, or when constraint X (like
    > PCI) is removed.

    Yes.
    --
    <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

    "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
    government's purposes are beneficient...The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
    insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
    -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-03-22 13:14    [W:3.470 / U:0.008 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site