On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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?
Since Martin added several `depends on PCI', it seems like big iron doesn't
have PCI (or perhaps PCI depends on !S390 now? :-).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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