linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86

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Message-ID: <20141205111818.551a870f@lwn.net>
Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:18:18 -0500
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
	Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>,
	Caz Yokoyama <Caz.Yokoyama@...el.com>,
	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	Dasaratharaman Chandramouli 
	<dasaratharaman.chandramouli@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Siva Yerramreddy <yshivakrishna@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for
 x86_64

On Thu,  4 Dec 2014 13:27:29 -0800
Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com> wrote:

> mic/mpssd along with MIC drivers are currently only usable on
> x86_64. So build mic/mpssd only for x86_64 to avoid build breaks on
> big-endian systems.

I can certainly apply this.  But it seems to me that this kind of code
doesn't belong in the documentation directory.  How about a patch to move
it to tools/ ?

jon
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