Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:27:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:27:39 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:7161 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:27:38 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1 From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200208062329.g76NTqP30962@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 07 Aug 2002 12:50:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1028721043.18478.265.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 11:01, Andi Kleen wrote: > Can you explain this further. How else do you propose to get rid of > unmaintained-and-absolutely-hopeless-on-64bit drivers in the configuration? > I definitely do not want to get bug reports about these not working on x86-64. I don't want a tree where every driver has seventeen lines of if IBM and not 64bit || parisc || x86 || !x86_64 || ia64) && (!wednesdayafternoon) Its *unmaintainable*. The sparc64 people don't do it, the mips people don't do it, the ia64 people don't do it, wtf should you get to fill config.in with crap The _ISA stuff makes sense, thats sensible, but the rest - when people moan we tell em to fix the drivers. - 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/