From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, vagabon.xyz@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:20:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e0512010720n2a02afc5y4efcbe1ee37092c8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201113744.GB19317@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On 12/1/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:11:24PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On 12/1/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:51:15AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > > So, bad example.
> > >
> > > Not in the IDE case. Bart restricted IDE to a smaller number of ARM
> > > platforms, plus any that had PCMCIA. There is no such restriction
> > > in the asm-arm/*.h header files.
> >
> > When I did this change there was such restriction in asm-arm/mach-*/ide.h
> > files (some platforms just lacked ide.h making IDE build break for them).
> >
> > IDE is a bad example anyway because of legacy ordering issues etc etc.
>
> Okay. Given the general concensus in this thread, can this be removed
> now?
No, I didn't say that I agree with DaveM. :)
For IDE keeping restriction makes it much easier to maintain
(i.e. to answer questions like "why is this ugly hack needed?").
Bartlomiej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 15:20 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 [this message]
2005-12-01 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
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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