Re: drivers/edac: add mips and ppc visibility

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:59:16PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
 > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b113a3f7e85d7f97c8383a88a5bc7c2ea8daeb2f
 > Commit:     b113a3f7e85d7f97c8383a88a5bc7c2ea8daeb2f
 > Parent:     052dfb45ccb5ea354a426b52556bcfee75b9d2f5
 > Author:     Douglas Thompson <[email protected]>
 > AuthorDate: Thu Jul 19 01:50:15 2007 -0700
 > Committer:  Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
 > CommitDate: Thu Jul 19 10:04:55 2007 -0700
 > 
 >     drivers/edac: add mips and ppc visibility
 >     
 >     1) Remove an old CVS ID string
 >     
 >     2) change EDAC from a tristate option to a simple bool option
 >     
 >     3) In addition to the X86 arch, PPC and MIPS also have drivers in the
 >     submission queue.  This patch turns on the EDAC flag for those archs.  Each
 >     driver will have its respective 'depends on ARCH' set.
 >     
 >     Signed-off-by: Douglas Thompson <[email protected]>
 >     Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
 >     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
 >     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

What was the reasoning behind 2) ?
Now everyone's distro kernel has bits of EDAC in it even if they
don't use it.  (Admittedly only a small amount, but these things
tend to creep in bit by bit).

	Dave

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