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SubjectRe: [irda-users] [PATCH] Make VLSI FIR depend on X86
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Noah J. Misch wrote:

> This is a trivial patch against the Kconfig entry for the VLSI FIR driver to
> make it depend on X86. The in-tree code guarantees that the driver will only
> build on X86, and according to the comments therein no machine of another
> architecture has this hardware anyway.

Well, it would work with any arch, _if_ there was a way to sync the
streaming pci dma buffers before giving them back to hardware. Last time I
checked there was no pci_dma api call to achieve this on all platforms.
For X86 however it's trivial due to cache coherency.

The guy is used with X86 notebooks only - unless whoever owns the
controller design decides to make some CardBus PC-Card for people with
notebooks lacking IrDA-support.

> Granted, no human intelligently configuring a kernel for his or her particular
> system would make this mistake, but perhaps someone building a distribution
> kernel would. I suggest this patch because it keeps the signal to noise ratio
> for those testing allyesconfig builds low.

Valid point, yes.

> This patch applies to the linux-2.5 BK tree as of 0400 UTC 10/20/2003, and for
> some time before that as well. Please consider for eventual inclusion. It may
> be too much of a fringe case until 2.6.0 begins its stable series.

Thanks, second this.

Martin

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