From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750739AbWGPGEv (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:04:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750743AbWGPGEv (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:04:51 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58541 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750739AbWGPGEu (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:04:50 -0400 Subject: Re: tighten ATA kconfig dependancies From: Arjan van de Ven To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Dave Jones , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20060716055857.GA29733@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <6yL2J-7rR-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <6yLco-7DB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <20060716055857.GA29733@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:04:47 +0200 Message-Id: <1153029887.3033.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > A cross compile toolchain is the only real soluion. Otherwise we would > soon end up with far to many drivers selectable for x84-64. if the *driver* is not platform specific, what is the problem with that? Aunt Tilly again? The only difference between x86 and x86-64 is isa-bus cards and things that were put on a motherboard but never on a PCI card. That's maybe a dozen or two total for the entire kernel, and a set that is not growing.