On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:16:18PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > No. We did our utmost to turn it on in the default kernel config. The
> > SA-11x0 doesn't have an ISA bus, but lots of devices mapped into the
> > PCMCIA space just work with the ISA drivers.
>
> Well... I don't fully agree with your rational since those drivers usually
> need some mods even if they are small. For example, the smc9194.c driver
> was cleaner when the distinction was made between ISA, SA1100_ASSABET,
> SA1100_CERF, etc. For the later ones you don't need CONFIG_ISA to be
> defined at all.
The idea that the drivers usually need some small mods was actually one
of the main reasons to define CONFIG_ISA for ARM. Otherwise we'll get
completely cluttered up Config.in files with crap like:
if [ "$CONFIG_ISA" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_SA1100" = "y" ]; then
tristate ' Foobar support' CONFIG_FOOBAR
fi
We'll have to change that anyway, but that's a 2.5 issue actively
discussed on linux-kernel (the "Aunt Tilly" and "Penelope" threads).
Erik
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