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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:03:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146708185.6652.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <904F5BD9-1ACB-4936-B390-E4128886824C@kernel.crashing.org>


> Yeah, what was I thinking.  So use some platform hook instead.

You must be smoking good stuff :)

> But Arnd of course is right; if the driver (currently) only works
> on a certain platform, just mark it as such in the Makefile (erm,
> Kconfig file).

Exactly :) I don't see any point in adding hooks or ifdef's or anything
fancy like that to guard from something that doesn't exist in real life:
that is building that driver on non-cell :) Thus Kconfig is the way to
go.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:03:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146708185.6652.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <904F5BD9-1ACB-4936-B390-E4128886824C@kernel.crashing.org>


> Yeah, what was I thinking.  So use some platform hook instead.

You must be smoking good stuff :)

> But Arnd of course is right; if the driver (currently) only works
> on a certain platform, just mark it as such in the Makefile (erm,
> Kconfig file).

Exactly :) I don't see any point in adding hooks or ifdef's or anything
fancy like that to guard from something that doesn't exist in real life:
that is building that driver on non-cell :) Thus Kconfig is the way to
go.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-29 23:28 [PATCH 00/13] Cell patches for 2.6.18 Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 01/13] cell: always build spu base into the kernel Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 02/13] spufs: restore mapping of mssync register Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 03/13] cell: fix interrupt priority handling Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 04/13] cell: remove broken __setup_cpu_be function Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-05  6:03   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-05-05  6:03     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-05-06  0:00     ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-06  0:00       ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-08 18:09       ` Information for setting up SMT related parameters on linux 2.6.16 on POWER5 Meswani, Mitesh
2006-05-08 20:03         ` Will Schmidt
2006-05-08 20:03           ` Will Schmidt
2006-05-08 23:04           ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-08 23:04             ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-09 23:17             ` Meswani, Mitesh
2006-05-10 16:27               ` Will Schmidt
2006-05-20  0:25             ` Meswani, Mitesh
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 05/13] cell: enable CPU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 06/13] powerpc: fix 64k pages on non-hypervisor Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 07/13] powerpc: export symbols for page size selection Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-05  5:56   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-05-05  5:56     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-05-05  9:12     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-05  9:12       ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 08/13] spufs: set up correct SLB entries for 64k pages Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 09/13] spufs: add a phys-id attribute to each SPU context Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-30  2:52   ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-04-30  2:52     ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-01 22:51     ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-01 22:51       ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-01 23:09       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-01 23:09         ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-01 23:49         ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-01 23:49           ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-01 23:50       ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-01 23:50         ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-02  0:06         ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-02  0:06           ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-02 10:59           ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-02 10:59             ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-02 23:38             ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-02 23:38               ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-03  0:18               ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-03  0:18                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-03  2:46               ` Paul Mackerras
2006-05-03  2:46                 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-05-03  6:28                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-03  6:28                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-04  2:03                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-05-04  2:03                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-02 18:20         ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-02 18:20           ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-02 18:30           ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-02 18:30             ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-02  0:13       ` Michael Ellerman
2006-05-02  0:13         ` Michael Ellerman
2006-05-02 18:20         ` [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specificfil es Geoff Levand
2006-05-02 18:20           ` Geoff Levand
2006-05-02 13:45       ` [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-02 13:45         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 12/13] cell: abstract priviledge-1 SPU registers for hypervisors Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28 ` [PATCH 13/13] cell: set SPU interrupt affinity in spu_priv1 code Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:42 ` [PATCH 10/13] cell: correctly detect systemsim host Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-29 23:42   ` Arnd Bergmann

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