linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] firmware: only allow EDD on x86/x86

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Message-ID: <s5h8wfprodx.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:07:54 +0200
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] firmware: only allow EDD on x86/x86_64

At Tue,  6 Oct 2009 01:57:07 -0400,
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> Rather than have the EDD depend on !ia64 (and assuming that only ia64,
> x86, x86_64 will be including this Kconfig), have EDD depend on the only
> arches which can support this code.  This should allow all other arches
> to cleanly include the firmware Kconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
> ---
> v2
> 	- send out the right file this time
> 
>  drivers/firmware/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> index ebb9e51..7fff33f 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menu "Firmware Drivers"
>  
>  config EDD
>  	tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk"
> -	depends on !IA64
> +	depends on (X86_64 || X86_32)

How about "depends on X86" ?


Takashi
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