Re: [PATCH] serial: Make SERIAL_MPS2_UART depend on ARCH_MPS2

[Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>]

On 13/05/16 09:57, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Vladimir Murzin
> <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> wrote:
>> On 10/05/16 19:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> Enabling support for the UART on the ARM MPS2 platform only make sense
>>> when compiling for the ARM MPS2 platform, unless compile-testing.
>>
>> What you said is true, but looking around (see SERIAL_STM32 for example)
>> I'm wondering what makes MPS2 so special flake?
> 
> Nothing. SERIAL_STM32 should be fixed, too.
> I only fixed SERIAL_MPS2_UART, as it was a newly-introduced symbol.
> 
>> I was under impression that architecture/board specific guard must have
>> only if we have something like
>>
>> #include <asm/xyz.h>
>>
>> or
>>
>> #include <mach/xyz.h>
>>
>> which is not a case for device-tree driven MPS2 uart.
>>
>> I have no idea what is practice for such things, so would be grateful to
>> get it known.
> 
> That's why there's an "|| COMPILE_TEST" in the dependency.
> 

First of all sorry for the late response...

Secondly, I have no strong opinion on the patch, so I'd leave the final
word to Greg

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>

Cheers
Vladimir

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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