From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, ben-linux@fluff.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] dependencies for platform drivers (was Re: ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:18:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071108081854.GN8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071108073105.3996.70418.sendpatchset@clockwork.opensource.se>
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:31:05PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> config AX88796
> tristate "ASIX AX88796 NE2000 clone support"
> - depends on ARM || MIPS
> + depends on ARM || MIPS || SUPERH
You know, that really sucks more and more. How about doing the following:
a) making it depend on PLAT_HAS_AX88796
b) adding selects for all subarchitectures that have the corresponding
platform device
and setting that as a uniform policy for platform drivers? For things like
SM501 we would do
config MFD_SM501
depends on PCI || PLAT_HAS_SM501
etc.
Seriously, folks, we are getting shitloads of platform drivers with no
dependencies whatsoever, needed on a handful of targets and occasionally
failing to build on unrelated architectures. Moreover, having a list
of architectures in dependencies for each of those suckers is a PITA
from the conflict POV. Not to mention platform drivers that fall into
the mainline kernel with not a single platform device for them, etc.
Comments?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 7:31 ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies Magnus Damm
2007-11-08 8:12 ` Paul Mundt
2007-11-08 8:18 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-11-08 9:02 ` [RFC] dependencies for platform drivers (was Re: ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies) Andrew Morton
2007-11-09 9:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-11-09 9:40 ` Paul Mundt
2007-11-09 12:02 ` Russell King
2007-11-09 12:02 ` Russell King
2007-11-09 12:08 ` Ben Dooks
2007-11-09 12:08 ` Ben Dooks
2007-11-09 12:06 ` Ben Dooks
2007-11-10 3:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-08 17:47 ` ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies Jeff Garzik
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