On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:46:02 +0100 Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:28:29AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Is there any way in which we can get the various au.... drivers to compile > > on > > x86? That way they'd end up a bit better maintained. > > Sounds like a plan - but not without a few problems. > > The PCMCIA driver doesn't look to hard to get to compile on x86 but on a > more general scale that's somewhat hard. The Alchemy chips are SOCs which > are all only available with Alchemy's MIPS32 core, so the drivers > implementations are somewhat dirt^H^H^H^HMIPS-specific, same for other > MIPS SOCs. > > In the past several people (the loudest of them was Alan afair) have > complained if architecture-specific drivers were selectable during the > kernel configuration for x86 and generally users didn't miss an > opportunity to machinegun both their feet when configuring their kernel > so the Kconfig files now limit the selection of drivers to only those > configurationss where it actually makes sense. Yes, there are pros and cons. > How about something like a new configuration flag DRIVERS_FOR_ANY_ARCH: > > config PCMCIA_AU1X00 > tristate "Au1x00 pcmcia support" > depends on (DRIVERS_FOR_ANY_ARCH || SOC_AU1X00) && PCMCIA > > ? > > But no doubt there are plenty of mines on that path ... That sounds like a good idea. _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
