[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue May 2 10:06:10 EST 2006


>>  config SPIDER_NET
>>  	tristate "Spider Gigabit Ethernet driver"
>> -	depends on PCI && PPC_CELL
>> +	depends on PCI && PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
>>  	select FW_LOADER
>>  	help
>>  	  This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the
>
> Hmm, I'm also no longer sure if this is right. In theory, spidernet
> could be used in all sorts of products, wether they are using the
> same bridge chip or just the gigabit ethernet macro from it.
>
> For now, I guess you can just leave this one alone if you respin
> the patch another time. It's disabled by default, so the dependency
> can be updated the next time we get a user in _addition_ to PPC_CELL.

Is there any reason the driver wouldn't build and/or run on other
platforms?  If so, fix it.  If not, just make it

	depends on PCI

?


Segher




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