[PATCH v8 0/2] Add support for the Allwinner A31 DMA Controller

[maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:04:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2014 17:55:51 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 05:23:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 May 2014 17:15:54 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > Changes from v7:
> > > >   - select DMA_OF, since we're only relying on DT
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I missed the discussion about this issue, but it seems wrong to me.
> > > DMA_OF is currently enabled if we have both DMAENGINE and OF turned on.
> > > 
> > > If OF is disabled but DMA_OF gets selected by DMA_SUN6I, what happens?
> > 
> > Is that even possible with a multiplatform-based platform?
> 
> It's not possible for ARCH_SUNXI or any other that depends on
> ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM. I just noticed that you have 'depends on ARCH_SUNXI',
> so the 'select DMA_OF' statement is just redundant, not wrong.
> 
> However, if the driver was 'depends on ARCH_SUNXI || COMPILE_TEST' as many
> others are nowadays, it would be a bug.

Ah, yes, I forgot about COMPILE_TEST.

I'll change this to remove the select, and add a dependency on
COMPILE_TEST.

Thanks,
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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