Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422951AbWJPXyd (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:54:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422952AbWJPXyd (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:54:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:61377 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422951AbWJPXyb (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:54:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:54:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Development , Mark Gross Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_TELCLOCK depends on X86 Message-Id: <20061016165426.d32352b4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 19 On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:59:43 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > The telecom clock driver for MPBL0010 ATCA SBC depends on X86 > But it compiles on other architectures (doesn't it?) And perhaps sometime the hardware will be available on other architectures. And there's benefit in being able to compile drivers on other architectures - sometimes it will catch bugs. IOW: what is the reason for making this change? - 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/