Re: Make OLPC camera driver depend on x86.

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:39:56 -0500
Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:12:52AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>  > Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > -	depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2
>  > > +	depends on I2C && VIDEO_V4L2 && X86_32
>  > 
>  > Any particular reason why?
> 
> Just seemed odd to be offered the option when I was building
> an ia64 kernel given its extremely unlikely to ever appear there.

It means we catch portability bugs early and people changing core code
catch problems even if their platform is not X86_32. The practice for
almost all out drivers is thus not to put in arch dependancies unless
they genuinely do not build on arbitary platforms.

NAK
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