Re: [PATCH] Drop IRDA ISA dependency

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Sat Oct 30 2004 - 14:01:08 EST


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:

> Sounds like there is some confusion over what CONFIG_ISA means.

i think it was vague / different before maybe?

> I always understood it to mean 'We have ISA slots on this
> architecture' regardless of whether theres an ISA style LPC bus.

or pc card --- but this got separate recently didn't it?

> Its a means of disabling a whole slew of drivers that have no
> meaning on a particular platform (in Andi's case, x86-64).

maybe we want CONFIG_BUS_ISA and CONFIG_SLOT_ISA, the former meaning
we have bus/semantics the latter depends on the former and means
physical slots --- which would be used to prune the driver selection
choices?

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