On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:54:29PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Erik Mouw wrote: > > The idea that the drivers usually need some small mods was actually one > > of the main reasons to define CONFIG_ISA for ARM. > > Bogus argument. CONFIG_ISA isn't strictly needed, and the presence of > it only move the cluttering inside the drivers themselves.
Lots of devices function on embedded stuff without even the slightest hint of an ISA bus. > The problem > happens to be in the configuration file and the real fix should come from > that area. I think we violently agree about that :) > Enabling CONFIG_ISA will just allow the false selection of many > more drivers that shouldn't be available. This is worse than few scattered > cluttering of Config.in files IMHO, until "Aunt Tilly" and "Penelope" make > that clutter be handled gracefully. Except that cluttering up Config.in files wasn't accepted as a patch and cluttering up C files was. Note that the cluttering up of C files is needed independent of the the configuration issue. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm Please visit the above address for information on this list.
