On 06/14/2011 12:08 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > The PC parallel port Kconfig as acquired one of those messy terms to > describe it's architecture dependencies: > > depends on (!SPARC64 || PCI) && !SPARC32 && !M32R && !FRV && \ > (!M68K || ISA) && !MN10300 && !AVR32 && !BLACKFIN > > This isn't just ugly - it also almost certainly describes the dependencies > too coarse grainedly. This is an attempt at cleaing the mess up. > > I tried to faithfully aproximate the old behaviour but the existing > behaviour seems inacurate if not wrong for some architectures or platforms. > To improve on this I rely on comments from other arch and platforms > maintainers. Any system that can take PCI multi-IO card or has a PC-style > parallel port on the mainboard should probably should now do a > select HAVE_PC_PARPORT. And some arch Kconfig files should further > restrict the use of HAVE_PC_PARPORT to only those platforms that actually > need it. > Why on earth restrict it like that? It's just a device driver, like more or less any other device driver... -hpa
