Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:11:24 +0100 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver |
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On 12/1/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:51:15AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> > > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:41:11 +0000 > > > > > In which case why do we restrict floppy to only those machines which > > > could have floppy? Why do we restrict IDE to only those platforms > > > which may have IDE? > > > > These two examples require platform level support via > > an asm/*.h header file. > > > > Whereas the driver's we are talking about use portable > > interfaces that should be available across the board. > > > > So, bad example. > > Not in the IDE case. Bart restricted IDE to a smaller number of ARM > platforms, plus any that had PCMCIA. There is no such restriction > in the asm-arm/*.h header files.
When I did this change there was such restriction in asm-arm/mach-*/ide.h files (some platforms just lacked ide.h making IDE build break for them).
IDE is a bad example anyway because of legacy ordering issues etc etc.
> if PCMCIA || ARCH_CLPS7500 || ARCH_IOP3XX || ARCH_IXP4XX \ > || ARCH_L7200 || ARCH_LH7A40X || ARCH_PXA || ARCH_RPC \ > || ARCH_S3C2410 || ARCH_SA1100 || ARCH_SHARK || FOOTBRIDGE > source "drivers/ide/Kconfig" > endif - 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/
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