netdev - Re: [PATCH] S390: Fix libphy link failure

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Message-ID: <1367853437.4569.126.camel@chaos.site>
Date:	Mon, 06 May 2013 17:17:17 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] S390: Fix libphy link failure

Hi David,

Le Monday 06 May 2013 à 11:00 -0400, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 16:53:39 +0200
> 
> > On S390 basic IRQ functions are provided by the PCI subsystem, so
> > code which calls these cannot be built if PCI support was not
> > selected.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> > Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> > ---
> > I know this isn't nice, but in the current state of S390 support
> > this is all I can offer.
> 
> I really am tired of all of these special S390 dependencies.
> 
> You can't say this is a new problem, because we've been hitting this
> issue repeatedly for more than a decade.  And I don't want to hear any
> excuses, we've all already invested enough time into this to prove
> that catering to S390's weird build limitations is a never ending
> burdon for non-s390 people.
> 
> Really, our interfaces are abstract enough that every driver ought to
> be buildable on every architecture.
> 
> It's time to put the burdon on your side, if you don't support some
> IRQ interface or whatever, provide a stub that returns an error
> rather than being that "special architecture" that everything else
> has to specially cater for with ugly Kconfig dependencies.

Fair enough, I tend to agree with you. S390 isn't my thing in the first
place. I was only trying to help fix a build regression (make
allmodconfig fails on 32-bit S390.)

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3

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