Re: dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:01:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes.
 > > 
 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
 > > 
 > > --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig~	2005-11-14 19:23:45.000000000 -0500
 > > +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/firmware/Kconfig	2005-11-14 19:24:18.000000000 -0500
 > > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config EFI_PCDP
 > >  
 > >  config DELL_RBU
 > >  	tristate "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs"
 > > +	depends on X86
 > >  	select FW_LOADER
 > >  	help
 > >  	 Say m if you want to have the option of updating the BIOS for your
 > 
 > Does it not compile on other architectures?  If it does, there's an
 > argument for leaving it there, for compile coverage.

If this were a "only works on non-x86" driver, I'd agree, but
x86 drivers probably get way more coverage than any arch already,
so I don't we really gain much by having this available on
archs that can't run it.

		Dave

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