From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Dooks Subject: [PATCH,RFC] Add configuration for availability of pata_platform Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:31:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20070709233129.GA31114@trinity.fluff.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from trinity.fluff.org ([217.147.94.151]:2154 "EHLO trinity.fluff.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756701AbXGIXbb (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:31:31 -0400 Received: from ben by trinity.fluff.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1I82hW-00086h-0A for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:31:30 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Repost of http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=118106594419762&w=2 Could someone comment on the following please: Add a hidden configuration for an architecture or machine to select to show that the pata_platform driver should be show in the configuration. This method is used to allow each individual machine/arch to specify this, instead of creating large "depends on" on the driver's Kconfig menu. If this patch is acceptable, I will submit a patch to move ARCH_RPC to select ARCH_HAS_PATA_PLATFORM. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-simtec/drivers/ata/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22-rc4-simtec.orig/drivers/ata/Kconfig 2007-06-05 18:27:08.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-simtec/drivers/ata/Kconfig 2007-06-05 18:35:44.000000000 +0100 @@ -548,9 +548,15 @@ config PATA_WINBOND_VLB Support for the Winbond W83759A controller on Vesa Local Bus systems. +config ARCH_HAS_PLATFORM_ATA + bool + help + Embedded option to show the architecture has at least one + machine which can use the platform device ata support. + config PATA_PLATFORM tristate "Generic platform device PATA support" - depends on EMBEDDED || ARCH_RPC + depends on EMBEDDED || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_HAS_PLATFORM_ATA help This option enables support for generic directly connected ATA devices commonly found on embedded systems. -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year.