Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261250AbUJ3S7a (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:59:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261248AbUJ3S7a (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:59:30 -0400 Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.77]:39104 "EHLO pimout1-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261250AbUJ3S7Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:58:43 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop IRDA ISA dependency Message-ID: <20041030185843.GB14420@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20041029130846.3D6639DF0EA9@verdi.suse.de> <20041029134549.GA12705@infradead.org> <20041029202214.GC18508@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041029202214.GC18508@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 24 On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > Sounds like there is some confusion over what CONFIG_ISA means. i think it was vague / different before maybe? > I always understood it to mean 'We have ISA slots on this > architecture' regardless of whether theres an ISA style LPC bus. or pc card --- but this got separate recently didn't it? > Its a means of disabling a whole slew of drivers that have no > meaning on a particular platform (in Andi's case, x86-64). maybe we want CONFIG_BUS_ISA and CONFIG_SLOT_ISA, the former meaning we have bus/semantics the latter depends on the former and means physical slots --- which would be used to prune the driver selection choices? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/