[PATCH,RFC] Add configuration for availability of pata_platform

[PATCH,RFC] Add configuration for availability of pata_platform

[Ben Dooks]

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 <ben-linux@fluff.org>
 
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

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