On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Brent Casavant wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Considering that all users of this code depend on > > (IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC) the SGI_IOC4 option > > should also depend on it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Tony, > > Please don't apply this yet. I'll need some guidance from Adrian > and you on how to proceed. > > The IOC4 chip _is_ available on a PCI card for x86 based systems. > And that is why I removed the dependence of the config option on > IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC. > > Unfortunately the only user of IOC4 on x86 is the "external interrupt" > IOC4 sub-driver which is available under the GPL, but was not accepted > into the Linux kernel. >... I wasn't aware of that driver. Why wasn't it accepted? > Brent cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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