Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:16:32 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] spi: octeon: Add thunderx driver |
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 05:51:22PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:04:52PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:42:55PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > > + depends on 64BIT && PCI && !CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC
> > This is a *weird* and most likely broken set of dependencies - why > > exclude this if we're on Octeon (or Octeon happens to have been enabled > > in a config)?
> I agree that it looks weird, the reasoning is that we would like > to avoid making the driver depend on something like ARCH_THUNDER.
Why?
> So I made the driver depend on the things it actually uses > (PCI for probing and 64BIT because of readq/writeq) and don't care if it > compiles on other platforms too (like x86).
The usual pattern would be something like (ARCH_THUNDER || COMPILE_TEST) && PCI && 64BIT (so that people on other platforms where the device will never actually appear don't get bothered by the prompt).
> That said, I can remove the !CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC, it compiles without > errors on MIPS too. Would that be ok?
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