On Wed, 17 May 2006, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 07:25 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > @@ -824,6 +827,7 @@ config DTLK
> > >
> > > config R3964
> > > tristate "Siemens R3964 line discipline"
> > > + depends on !S390
> > > ---help---
> > > This driver allows synchronous communication with devices using the
> > > Siemens R3964 packet protocol. Unless you are dealing with special
> >
> > I'd be tempted to not bother adding a depends here ... it won't do any
> > harm; it's not controlling hardware after all.
>
> Seems out of place to me. But we have a bunch of other strange config
> options as well, e.g. support for the Amiga AFFS filesystem. Anybody
> who wants to attach an Amiga disk to a mainframe?
Or a disk image using the loop device?
You can use the same reasoning against any non-native Linux file system...
But compiling too many file systems doesn't hurt, it even gives us extra
compile coverage ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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