Re: [PATCH] arch/arm/Kconfig: Make UIO available on ARM architecture

Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-02-08T09:56:33Z

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:04:13AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 21:23 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Both situations are trivially fixable by introducing
> > HAVE_IDE and HAVE_MTD.
> > See attached patch.
>
> HAVE_MTD is wrong.

If we are serious about allowing ARM to use drivers/Kconfig, then let's
not get distracted by perfection - by trying to do too many changes in
one go.

If, today, we conditionalise MTD or IDE on a certain set of symbols,
then those conditions should be preserved in the first step - it should
be a 1:1 translation.

Later, if there's a need to improve it (as you're suggesting) that should
be a *separate* change.