[RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jun 15 06:25:46 EST 2011
On 06/14/2011 12:08 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> The PC parallel port Kconfig as acquired one of those messy terms to
> describe it's architecture dependencies:
>
> depends on (!SPARC64 || PCI) && !SPARC32 && !M32R && !FRV && \
> (!M68K || ISA) && !MN10300 && !AVR32 && !BLACKFIN
>
> This isn't just ugly - it also almost certainly describes the dependencies
> too coarse grainedly. This is an attempt at cleaing the mess up.
>
> I tried to faithfully aproximate the old behaviour but the existing
> behaviour seems inacurate if not wrong for some architectures or platforms.
> To improve on this I rely on comments from other arch and platforms
> maintainers. Any system that can take PCI multi-IO card or has a PC-style
> parallel port on the mainboard should probably should now do a
> select HAVE_PC_PARPORT. And some arch Kconfig files should further
> restrict the use of HAVE_PC_PARPORT to only those platforms that actually
> need it.
>
Why on earth restrict it like that? It's just a device driver, like
more or less any other device driver...
-hpa
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