Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422753AbWJQILr (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:11:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422776AbWJQILr (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:11:47 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:15005 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422753AbWJQILq (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:11:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:11:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Andrew Morton cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Development , Mark Gross Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_TELCLOCK depends on X86 In-Reply-To: <20061016165426.d32352b4.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20061016165426.d32352b4.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 33 On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? It does ISA I/O accesses and failed to build for most m68k platforms. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/