From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946116AbWGPF66 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:58:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964794AbWGPF65 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:58:57 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:33242 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750739AbWGPF64 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:58:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:58:57 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: 7eggert@gmx.de Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Dave Jones , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: tighten ATA kconfig dependancies Message-ID: <20060716055857.GA29733@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <6yL2J-7rR-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <6yLco-7DB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:38:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > >> A lot of prehistoric junk shows up on x86-64 configs. > > > > ... but in general it helps compile testing if you're hacking stuff; > > if your hacking IDE on x86-64 you now have to compile 32 bit as well to > > see if you didn't break the compile for these as well > > > > So please don't do this, just disable them in your config... > > If you want to compile test these drivers, just revert the patch or edit > the .config. Editing .config will not do the trick. kconfig will make sure the kernel is build with a valid config so they will get turned off. A cross compile toolchain is the only real soluion. Otherwise we would soon end up with far to many drivers selectable for x84-64. Sam