On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:57:36PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:26:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:45:41PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > > infiniband uses PCI helpers all over the place (including the core parts)
> > > and
> > > won't build without PCI.
> > >...
> >
> > CONFIG_INFINIBAND=y and CONFIG_PCI=n compiles for me on i386.
> >
> > Can you post the compile error you got?
>
> On which platform? There's a lot of them on the architectures that do not
As I said, on i386.
> have PCI at all - same situation as with firewire. Note that you won't
> get any low-level drivers on PCI-less config even on i386, so while I
> agree that more accurate dependency would be nice here (as well as for
> drivers/ieee1394), for all practical purposes the same dependency works
> here.
>
> BTW, this is more general question - do we expect pci helpers to be present
> on all platforms and do we consider their use acceptable in code that does
> not depend on PCI?
>...
Are you talking about the ones that already have dummy functions for the
PCI=n case in include/linux/pci.h, or about other functions?
cu
Adrian
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