From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:33:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201113339.GF3958@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201094111.GA14726@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:41:11AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> In which case why do we restrict floppy to only those machines which
> could have floppy?
Because the floopy drivers needs asm/floppy.h and wouldn't build on others.
> Why do we restrict IDE to only those platforms
> which may have IDE?
Dito with asm/ide.h
these are very old drivers where people weren't used to abstractions that
would allow to write them platform-independent. For any driver that doesn't
have an actual platform depency making it conditional is a bad idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 11:33 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 [this message]
2005-11-30 21:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-01 7:56 ` Franck
2005-12-01 23:17 ` Matan Ziv-Av
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