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

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