From: Rocco Folino <rocco.folino@gmail.com>
To: Alban <albeu@free.fr>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>,
John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ath79: support devicetree selection
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:59:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170906135959.GA25439@void> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170906153543.412774d5@avionic-0141>
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:35:43PM +0200, Alban wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:32:00 +0200
> Rocco Folino <rocco.folino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:20:05PM +0200, Alban wrote:
> > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 13:14:35 +0200
> > > Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 05:32:42PM +0200, Rocco Folino wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Allow to choose devicetrees from Kconfig.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Rocco Folino <rocco.folino@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > I don't really see the point of this patch. Building the dtb doesn't
> > > take any significant time, so why add this extra complexity?
> >
> > Because you need to select the SoC type in order to enable some
> > drivers, for example on the AR9331 to use the serial you need the
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_AR933X which depends on the CONFIG_SOC_AR933X.
>
> Seeing as this driver is the only one that make use of CONFIG_SOC_AR933X
> I would prefer removing this dependency. It would also open the way to have
> the driver built in COMPILE_TEST. A few more fixes might be needed but that
> would be better than such a workaround.
Yes, I agree!
Thanks,
Rocco
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-18 15:32 [PATCH] MIPS: ath79: support devicetree selection Rocco Folino
[not found] ` <b78cb3ef8df8531efdb7b011743ad3f38978015d.1503070362.git.rocco.folino-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-06 11:14 ` Ralf Baechle
[not found] ` <20170906111435.GA1856-6z/3iImG2C8G8FEW9MqTrA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-06 12:01 ` Rocco Folino
2017-09-06 12:20 ` Alban
2017-09-06 12:32 ` Rocco Folino
2017-09-06 13:35 ` Alban
2017-09-06 13:59 ` Rocco Folino [this message]
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