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SubjectRe: dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:01:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig~ 2005-11-14 19:23:45.000000000 -0500
> > > +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2005-11-14 19:24:18.000000000 -0500
> > > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config EFI_PCDP
> > >
> > > config DELL_RBU
> > > tristate "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs"
> > > + depends on X86
> > > select FW_LOADER
> > > help
> > > Say m if you want to have the option of updating the BIOS for your
> >
> > Does it not compile on other architectures? If it does, there's an
> > argument for leaving it there, for compile coverage.
>
> If this were a "only works on non-x86" driver, I'd agree, but
> x86 drivers probably get way more coverage than any arch already,
> so I don't we really gain much by having this available on
> archs that can't run it.
>

Where's the advantage in removing it from non-x86 builds?
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