Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758820AbYJMSgU (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754889AbYJMSgH (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:36:07 -0400 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:53258 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753425AbYJMSgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:36:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:35:03 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Brice Goglin Cc: "Brandeburg, Jesse" , Kamalesh Babulal , Jeff Garzik , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sam@ravnborg.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Sosnowski, Maciej" Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.27-git2 - allyesconfig on powerpc selectsCONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=y Message-ID: <20081013183503.GA28133@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> References: <20081013101559.GA14372@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20081013112631.GD29938@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52066E2EAE@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <48F391B9.1000206@myri.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F391B9.1000206@myri.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 36 On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:21:45PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > > What we want, is myri10ge and ixgbe drivers that can build whether or not CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA is enabled. IF CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA *is* enabled (which it should not be on PPC) then there are several cases we want to work: > > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=m ---> CONFIG_IXGBE=[m|n] > > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=y ---> CONFIG_IXGBE=[m|y|n] > > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=n ---> CONFIG_IXGBE=[m|y|n] > > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA depends on X86 > > I am not sure I want to prevent myri10ge=y just because ioatdma=m. >... Technically both solutions are possible, which to choose is just a policy decision you have to agree on. In practice it will anyway only rarely matter. But considering that igb is in a similar situation it would be nice if all 3 drivers would handle it the same way. > Brice cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/