In general, patch is much better: it passes all the static checker tests for byte width and endianness issues. However On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 00:19 -0700, Narsimhulu Musini wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > index 9c92f41..8baab3f 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig > @@ -634,6 +634,23 @@ config FCOE_FNIC > <file:Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt>. > The module will be called fnic. > > +config SCSI_SNIC > + tristate "Cisco SNIC Driver" > + depends on PCI && SCSI && X86_64 Please don't restrict the compilation architecture in the Kconfig because that restricts the amount of build testing the driver gets. Instead you can put a runtime warning in the driver if you insist. Something like this http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/101846 Where you add a runtime taint is much better. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html