linux-kernel - Re: Kconfig variable "COBALT" is not defined anywhere

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706031630030.26035@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:31:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig variable "COBALT" is not defined anywhere

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:17:48 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> >   (no one's listed as the official cobalt maintainer so i thought i'd
> > just throw this out there.)
> >
> >   there is no Kconfig file which defines the selectable option
> > "COBALT", which means that this snippet from drivers/char/nvram.c:
> >
> > #  if defined(CONFIG_COBALT)
> > #    include <linux/cobalt-nvram.h>
> > #    define MACH COBALT
> > #  else
> > #    define MACH PC
> > #  endif
> >
> > never evaluates to true, therefore making <linux/cobalt-nvram.h>
> > fairly useless, at least under the circumstances.
>
> Maybe it should be MIPS_COBALT ?

that's the first thing that occurred to me, but that header file is
copyright sun microsystems and says nothing about MIPS, so that didn't
really settle the issue.  that's why i'd rather someone else resolve
this one way or the other.

rday
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