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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH] can: Let Flexcan driver depend on platform
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@denx.de>, Xenomai <xenomai@xenomai.org>

On 2012-10-17 13:22, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 01:20 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Just like the Linux version does, let our RT Flexcan driver depend on
>> CONFIG_HAVE_CAN_FLEXCAN so that it can only be selected on platforms
>> that actually support it.
> 
> 
> Do all old kernels for CPUs which have a flexcan controller have this
> symbol defined?

That's a question for Wolfgang. We briefly discussed this yesterday, and
that dependency appeared reasonable on first glance.

The platform has to provide at least CONFIG_OF. So that could be plan B
in case HAVE_CAN_FLEXCAN is too strict.

Jan

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