Re: [discuss] RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 07:43:06 EST


> The most important improvement would be to prevent such bugs and to have
> the X86_64 dependency explicitely stated.

This would just end up with me having to hunt through all the drivers
all the time and enabling drivers that need to be enabled on x86-64 too.

It's much easier to disable the few drivers that are broken with !X86_64.

Again please don't do it. It will just cause more work long term.

-Andi
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