Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750759AbVLAH4M (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:56:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbVLAH4L (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:56:11 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]:33403 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbVLAH4L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:56:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ba4H4Nclyjpyr8AXewzpHj4VVJ6UyLMTv1QSqAHNxmqRKRjN6z/IZ39Wcs/m3/1ARmib0sAgSlJIb7h3SdNNKjQbCVZimO/SbFVtR/NnQICEqlehtz0PaertuFtgZe75yp8V/wZeww1U9gdVi/vzGRSSNtuhfl2Ta/gfpchGKng= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:56:10 +0100 From: Franck To: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver Cc: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051130.134820.19334664.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051130162327.GC1053@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051130165546.GD1053@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051130.134820.19334664.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 30 2005/11/30, David S. Miller : > From: Russell King > 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. > this would mean that we should change almost all ethernet driver deps ? thanks -- Franck - 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/