From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:48:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051130.134820.19334664.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051130165546.GD1053@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:55:47 +0000
> If other CPUs use this then fine, but I find that having config options
> needlessly available to all architectures is annoying - especially when
> they are never used.
>
> Eg, would you ever expect to see a DM9000 ethernet device on an x86
> machine? Probably not - there's far better PCI solutions now.
If I, for example, make changes across the tree to SKB handling, I'd
like to be able to build as many drivers as possible and fix up the
compile warnings and build failures before _you_ get to see them.
That's why it's a good idea to make drivers available to as many
platforms as possible, even if the hardware isn't necessarily
used there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-30 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-30 16:21 Franck
2005-11-30 16:23 ` Russell King
2005-11-30 16:45 ` Franck
2005-11-30 16:55 ` Russell King
2005-11-30 17:07 ` Franck
2005-11-30 18:14 ` David Woodhouse
2005-11-30 19:02 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 8:36 ` David Woodhouse
2005-12-01 9:41 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 9:51 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-01 10:52 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 11:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-12-01 11:37 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 15:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-12-01 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-30 21:48 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-12-01 7:56 ` Franck
2005-12-01 23:17 ` Matan Ziv-Av
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