On Friday 30 June 2006 15:04, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:44 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Friday 30 June 2006 14:26, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > it has been a few weeks since the s390 kconfig discussion died down.
> > > I have put together a new patch that includes all of the suggestions
> > > made so far. With this patch "make allyesconfig" and "make allmodconfig"
> > > now works on s390.
> > > 
> > > Please check that it does not break anything on your favorite 
> > > architecture. It really shouldn't but you never know. I want to push
> > > this patch soon.
> > 
> > I must say I still hate the negative !S390. It would be much better
> > to define something positive. If PCI doesn't work maybe something 
> > else.
> 
> Well, I don't like these negative !S390 depends as well. But I can't
> help it, there is no other existing config symbol that can be used for a
> positive dependency. Hardware that is built into the machine and is not
> attached via some kind of bus does not have any dependency. 


But one can be invented. 

DESKTOP_HARDWARE
SMALL_IRON
END_USER_PCI
...

Chose one.

What stops users from plugging a PCI sound card into your PCI slots 
BTW?

Initially it can be set dependent on !S390 and then later migrated
into all the architectures (you can probably recruit someone on l-k
to do it if you don't want to do it yourself ...) 

-Andi
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