On 06/14/2011 09:40 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:18:36AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: >>> >>> There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be >>> used. It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test >>> matrix for no good reason. >>> >> >> I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS >> SoCs are offered on x86 platforms? >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right > Except in this case it's not wrong. It was done that way because it was discovered a long time ago that restricting drivers that were not *inherently* limited to specific platform just resulted in more bitrot and nasty surprises for the users who *did* need specific things after all, even though the maintainers had not thought so. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
