Re: [PATCH] (11/43) Kconfig fix (infiniband and PCI)

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:26:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> As I said, on i386.

Builds due to stubs being still present, doesn't do anything since it
doesn't even try to look for any hardware in that case.

> > have PCI at all - same situation as with firewire.  Note that you won't
> > get any low-level drivers on PCI-less config even on i386, so while I
> > agree that more accurate dependency would be nice here (as well as for
> > drivers/ieee1394), for all practical purposes the same dependency works
> > here.
> > 
> > BTW, this is more general question - do we expect pci helpers to be present
> > on all platforms and do we consider their use acceptable in code that does
> > not depend on PCI?
> >...
> 
> Are you talking about the ones that already have dummy functions for the 
> PCI=n case in include/linux/pci.h, or about other functions?

pci_map.../pci_unmap..., for one thing.
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