netdev - Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three

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Message-Id: <20071012.150341.41635825.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andi@...stfloor.org
Cc:	eliezert@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BNX2X] round three

From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:47:28 +0200

> "Eliezer Tamir" <eliezert@...adcom.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > * For now depend on x86 or x86_64, will add more architectures ASAP.
> 
> Why is that? Linux drivers normally should not be architecture specific.

I totally agree, and the only way to weed out these kinds of
bugs is to allow it to build on other systems so users can
try it out and report what fails.  Or even better, a motivated
developer tries it out and fixes the bugs for you :-)
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