# Re: \[RFC,PATCH\] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig

- From: H. Peter Anvin \<hpa@zytor.com\>
- Date: 2011-06-15 04:18:36 
- List: linux-alpha
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-alpha/2011/06/8577823
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2011/06/8577797/t.md

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On 06/14/2011 03:34 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> There is no point in offering to build something that couldn't possibly be
> used.  It just makes the kernel harder to configure and inflates the test
> matrix for no good reason.
> 

I see... that's why a bunch of devices that only exist on ARM and MIPS
SoCs are offered on x86 platforms?

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


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