Re: [PATCH] Centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS

Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-11-13T10:32:42Z

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 366ec06..9bc00e7 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -271,6 +271,13 @@ config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
> select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
> bool
>
> +config ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
> + bool
> + help
> + An architecture should select this if it cannot (or will not)
> + implement virt_to_bus(). All new architectures should probably
> + select this.

Don't we typically put the burden of selecting Kconfig flags for deprecated
features on the existing architectures that provide the deprecated features?

I.e. shouldn't it be ARCH_HAS_VIRT_TO_BUS, selected by the architectures
that need it, instead?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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