From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] Enable various Renesas drivers on all ARM platforms Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:54:27 +0200 Message-ID: <1383054867.29619.34.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> References: <1383004027-25036-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> <1383051980.29619.33.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <1844190.ApyucSZX8W@avalon> Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1844190.ApyucSZX8W@avalon> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Linus Walleij , Guennadi Liakhovetski , Thierry Reding , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Laurent Pinchart , "David S. Miller" , Vinod Koul , Joerg Roedel , Wolfram Sang , Magnus Damm , Eduardo Valentin , Tomi Valkeinen , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Zhang Rui , Chris Ball , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Ian List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 14:22 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Also, if ARM dependency is ever removed, all these should become 'n' by > > default in the Kconfig, in order to make sure they do not slip into > > defconfigs of different architectures. > > The idea is that, if ARM is neither a compile-time nor runtime dependency, it > should not be specified in Kconfig. However, if the IP core has never been > used on anything but SuperH and ARM, I don't think clobbering the config > process with drivers that can't be used on the target architecture would be a > really good idea, especially now that we have a COMPILE_TEST Kconfig option. > My preference does goes to SUPERH || ARM || COMPILE_TEST over no dependency at > all. Ah, OK, I missed the entire COMPILE_TEST story. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy