Re: [PATCH v2 06/21] fpga: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of platform dependency

Alan Tull
2018-03-19T16:07:39Z

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

Hi Geert,

This essentially removes this commit

commit 1c8cb409491403036919dd1c6b45013dc8835a44
Author: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 3 13:45:46 2016 -0700

drivers/fpga/Kconfig: fix build failure

While building m32r allmodconfig the build is failing with the error:

ERROR: "bad_dma_ops" [drivers/fpga/zynq-fpga.ko] undefined!

Xilinx Zynq FPGA is using DMA but there was no dependency while
building.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464346526-13913-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Acked-by: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>
Cc: Alan Tull <atull@opensource.altera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Alan

> Remove dependencies on HAS_DMA where a Kconfig symbol depends on another
> symbol that implies HAS_DMA, and, optionally, on "|| COMPILE_TEST".
> In most cases this other symbol is an architecture or platform specific
> symbol, or PCI.
>
> Generic symbols and drivers without platform dependencies keep their
> dependencies on HAS_DMA, to prevent compiling subsystems or drivers that
> cannot work anyway.
>
> This simplifies the dependencies, and allows to improve compile-testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Add Reviewed-by, Acked-by,
> - Drop RFC state,
> - Split per subsystem.
> ---
> drivers/fpga/Kconfig | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/Kconfig b/drivers/fpga/Kconfig
> index f47ef848bcd056d5..fd539132542e30ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/Kconfig
> @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ config FPGA_MGR_ALTERA_CVP
> config FPGA_MGR_ZYNQ_FPGA
> tristate "Xilinx Zynq FPGA"
> depends on ARCH_ZYNQ || COMPILE_TEST
> - depends on HAS_DMA
> help
> FPGA manager driver support for Xilinx Zynq FPGAs.
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>