netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building on Blackfin systems

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Message-Id: <20090608.143710.83724675.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:37:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Steve.Glendinning@...c.com
Cc:	vapier@...too.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org, Ian.Saturley@...c.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netdev: smsc911x: allow building on Blackfin
 systems

From: Steve.Glendinning@...c.com
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:36:24 +0100

> You're right, there's nothing "special" about ARM | SUPERH other than they 
> cover all the in-tree platforms using smsc911x.  The aim was to hide this 
> option from menuconfig on x86 etc, where this device is extremely unlikely 
> to be found.  Maybe there's a better way of doing this?

I sincerely doubt keeping this out of x86's menuconfig so important,
really.

So many devices are available for powerpc and sparc64 that will never
appear there, however those drivers now get build validated on those
platforms and it's therefore a net-win.
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