On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:21:45PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> > What we want, is myri10ge and ixgbe drivers that can build whether or not
> > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA is enabled. IF CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA *is* enabled
> > (which it should not be on PPC) then there are several cases we want to
> > work:
> > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=m ---> CONFIG_IXGBE=[m|n]
> > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=y ---> CONFIG_IXGBE=[m|y|n]
> > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=n ---> CONFIG_IXGBE=[m|y|n]
> > CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA depends on X86
>
> I am not sure I want to prevent myri10ge=y just because ioatdma=m.
>...
Technically both solutions are possible, which to choose is just a
policy decision you have to agree on.
In practice it will anyway only rarely matter.
But considering that igb is in a similar situation it would be nice if
all 3 drivers would handle it the same way.
> Brice
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