Messages in this thread | | | From | Li Yang <> | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:44:21 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 46/47] net: ethernet: freescale: make UCC_GETH explicitly depend on PPC32 |
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:37 PM Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:04 AM Rasmus Villemoes > <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote: > > > > Currently, QUICC_ENGINE depends on PPC32, so this in itself does not > > change anything. In order to allow removing the PPC32 dependency from > > QUICC_ENGINE and avoid allmodconfig build failures, add this explicit > > dependency. > > Can you add an explanation why we don't want ucc_geth on non-PowerPC platforms?
I think it is because the QE Ethernet was never integrated in any non-PowerPC SoC and most likely will not be in the future. We probably can make it compile for other architectures for general code quality but it is not a priority.
Regards, Leo
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