On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:31:51PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > When I talk about "rules that use architecture symbols to suppress > things like bus types" I have in mind things like this: [snip] > unless (ISA or PCI) suppress dependent IDE
Just a minor point, but what about non-PCI/ISA ide? > unless PCI suppress dependent USB HOTPLUG_PCI And there's hope this will die soon too (USB) ... > unless (X86 or ALPHA or MIPS32 or PPC) suppress usb or SPARC or SPARC64 (iirc) or ARM (once !pci usb is allowed)... > unless (X86 and PCI and EXPERIMENTAL) or PPC or ARM or SPARC suppress dependent >IEEE1394 Wouldn't the experimental be global? And maybe the PCI too? > It seems to me *extremely* unlikely that a typical patch from a PPC maintainer > would mess with any of these! They're rules that are likely to be written > once at the time a new port is added to the tree and seldom or ever changed > afterwards. But they will be modified for new arch X, or when constraint X (like PCI) is removed. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel