Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 11:25 +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:26:44PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 07:58 +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig
> > > index 2f23133..808a904 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig
> > > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config PPC_CELL_NATIVE
> > >  
> > >  config PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
> > >  	bool "IBM Cell Blade"
> > > -	depends on PPC64 && PPC_BOOK3S
> > > +	depends on PPC64 && PPC_BOOK3S && CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> > 
> > We end up saying this five times.
> > 
> > We already have PPC_BOOK3S_64 which captures the first two conditions, should
> > we add a PPC_BOOK3S_64_BE which expresses it all?
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is worth.. IMO, we add a config option only if
> 
> 1.	we can use this config somewhere in the code, for example,
> 	"#ifdef CONFIG_XXX"
> or
> 
> 2.	we want to offer a option for users to choose.
>
> PPC_BOOK3S_64_BE satisfies neither condition. Further more,
> CONFIG_PPC64, CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S and CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN all are used
> in some #ifdefs in current code. As a newbie of kernel, I'm happy to get
> some knowledge like: "If I'm hacking PS3, then #ifndef CONFIG_PPC64 is
> guaranteed to be false, so I can just ignore the code guarded by them".
> But if we add a PPC_BOOK3S_64_BE, it will take a little more effort to
> see this.

Yeah those are good points, so I'll take it as is. Thanks for thinking about it :)

cheers