Re: [NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 14:01:55 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:14:42PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:55 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > So until someone says "I want to use this on such and such arch" I
> > think it's better to keep it dependent on those we know are likely
> > to support it.
>
> I disagree; unless there's a reason why it _shouldn't_ work on a given
> architecture, it should be possible to enable it there.

We agree to disagree. For example, in all probability, ARM will never
see a TPM chip, yet it's offered for selection. Given that, does it
really make sense to offer it for ARM?

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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