Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce BROKEN_ON_64BIT facility

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:54:19 -0400

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Add a broken-on-64bit option, similar to the existing broken-on-smp
>> config option.  This is just the first pass, marking the obvious
>> candidates.
> 
> When I had this problem in the past I just used && !64BIT.
> How is this new option different?

Same reason why we have CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP separate from CONFIG_SMP.

> AFAIK I2O got fixed too. Do you have any evidence that it is really
> broken on 64bit?

i2o_config did not.  Just read the code, it's obvious...

	Jeff