From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add hardware dependency to TS-4800 board drivers
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 07:16:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BA02CA.4070500@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160209150810.GA7014@localhost>
On 02/09/2016 07:08 AM, Damien Riegel wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:15:49AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This adds hardware dependency to 3 drivers for the Technologic Systems
>> TS-4800 board. Thanks to these dependencies, users of other systems
>> will not accidentally enable these drivers.
>
> These drivers are for IPs implemented in an FPGA. For now it is true
> that they are used only on one board with an iMX.51 but this is not a
> strong dependency and it might change in the future if Technologic
> Systems decide to reuse these IPs on boards based on different SoCs.
>
> As the FPGA and the SoC are two separate chips, I don't know how such
> dependency should be expressed in kconfig.
>
You could add a Kconfig option for the FPGA, which currently depends
on the SoC.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-09 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-09 10:15 [PATCH 0/3] Add hardware dependency to TS-4800 board drivers Jean Delvare
2016-02-09 10:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: ts4800: add hardware dependency Jean Delvare
2016-02-09 14:28 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-03-04 19:36 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2016-02-09 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] Input: " Jean Delvare
2016-03-04 19:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-02-09 10:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] irqchip/ts4800: Add " Jean Delvare
2016-02-18 1:44 ` Jason Cooper
2016-02-09 14:28 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add hardware dependency to TS-4800 board drivers Guenter Roeck
2016-02-09 15:14 ` Jean Delvare
2016-02-09 15:08 ` Damien Riegel
2016-02-09 15:16 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2016-02-09 15:24 ` Jean Delvare
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