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

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Message-ID: <cc96a5040706031408i54116922m7a83c7e0b07181e6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:08:40 -0700
From:	"Tim Hockin" <thockin@...gle.com>
To:	"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig variable "COBALT" is not defined anywhere

There were other patches which added more COBALT support, but they
were dropped or lost or whatever.

I would not balk at having that code yanked.  I never got around to
doing proper Cobalt support for modern kernels. :(

On 6/3/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:
>  > > >   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.
>
> Actually, looking through the old kernel history, it looks like this
> was added by Tim Hockin's (CCed) patch "Add Cobalt Networks support to
> nvram driver".  Which added this to drivers/cobalt:
>
> +bool 'Support for Cobalt Networks x86 servers' CONFIG_COBALT
>
> I guess Tim can clear up what's intended...
>
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