Re: [PATCH] (11/43) Kconfig fix (infiniband and PCI)

[Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:26:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:45:41PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > infiniband uses PCI helpers all over the place (including the core parts) and
> > won't build without PCI.
> >...
> 
> CONFIG_INFINIBAND=y and CONFIG_PCI=n compiles for me on i386.
> 
> Can you post the compile error you got?

On which platform?  There's a lot of them on the architectures that do not
have PCI at all - same situation as with firewire.  Note that you won't
get any low-level drivers on PCI-less config even on i386, so while I
agree that more accurate dependency would be nice here (as well as for
drivers/ieee1394), for all practical purposes the same dependency works
here.

BTW, this is more general question - do we expect pci helpers to be present
on all platforms and do we consider their use acceptable in code that does
not depend on PCI?

Again, for infiniband and ieee1394 it's an academical question, since neither
actually has any hardware it could talk to in .config without CONFIG_PCI...