Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:48:07PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
And with legacy ISA devices still around, I don't see a whole lot of
value in differentiating between "I have ISA slots" and "I have ISA
devices".
There is great value. Basically most ISA drivers are not 64bit
clean (if they even still work on i386 which is also often doubtful
in 2.6) and it is a great way for 64bit archs to get rid of a lot
of not working code.
I file that under "hiding bugs", since it will not be immediately
obvious to a bug hunter or maintainer what the real problem is.
If a driver is broken on 64-bit, please add "&& !64BIT" to the Kconfig.
As you yourself just explained, your wish is to use CONFIG_ISA, but your
intent is only coincedentally related to ISA.
Jeff
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