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update CONFIG_PCI description

PATCH In review Christoph Hellwig 2 participants 2 messages Aug 9, 2005 – Aug 11, 2005

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PATCH 1/1 update CONFIG_PCI description

The current one doesn't even make sense anymore on i386 where it apparently came from.

Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig
=================================--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/Kconfig 2005-07-24 23:24:52.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/Kconfig 2005-08-09 22:36:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -392,15 +392,8 @@
config PCI
bool "PCI support"
help

-	  Find out whether you have a PCI motherboard. PCI is the name of a
-	  bus system, i.e. the way the CPU talks to the other stuff inside
-	  your box. Other bus systems are ISA, EISA, MicroChannel (MCA) or
-	  VESA. If you have PCI, say Y, otherwise N.
-
-	  The PCI-HOWTO, available from
-	  <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, contains valuable
-	  information about which PCI hardware does work under Linux and which
-	  doesn't.
+	  There is no IA64 hardware without PCI/PCI-X/PCI-Express busses.
+	  Say Y here unless running on the HP simulator.

config PCI_DOMAINS
bool

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Quoted 5 lines · Christoph Hellwig

The current one doesn't even make sense anymore on i386 where it apparently came from.

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+	  There is no IA64 hardware without PCI/PCI-X/PCI-Express busses.
+	  Say Y here unless running on the HP simulator.

Hm, I thought I already updated that one. I think it's bad style to write in the negative like that ... how about:

All IA-64 machines use PCI/PCI-X/PCI Express busses. Unless you are using a simulator without PCI support, you should say Y here.

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