Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423245AbWANBVE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:21:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423253AbWANBVE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:21:04 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36067 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423245AbWANBVC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:21:02 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Bjorn Helgaas Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:19:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Matt Domsch , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, "Tolentino, Matthew E" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <20060106223932.GB9230@lists.us.dell.com> <200601131724.42054.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200601131724.42054.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601140219.39765.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1321 Lines: 38 On Saturday 14 January 2006 01:24, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 15:39, Matt Domsch wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig > > ... > > +config DMI > > +???????bool > > +???????default y > > Should we have a way to turn this off? At least on i386/x86-64 it is largely used for hardware/firmware bug workaround and these have been traditionally always compiled in Or do you want to spend a lot of time on a bug report from a user only to discover they didn't enable the workarounds for their particular platform? You might not need that right now but I can predict that at some point you'll need board specific workarounds - and then it will be very useful to have. > > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile > > ... > > +dmi_scan-y?????????????????????+= ../../i386/kernel/dmi_scan.o > > Ugh. I really hate this sort of sharing. Could dmi_scan.c go in > drivers/firmware/ or something instead? Well, i suppose it will be more common in the future. Perhaps get over that particular hatered? -Andi - 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/