From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: cadence: Add architecture dependencies Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:40:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20140423094010.17d2d763@endymion.delvare> References: <20140414153849.7138699b@endymion.delvare> <20140422203209.GH12304@sirena.org.uk> <535768E1.8050609@monstr.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Brown , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Ferre , Grant Likely , Rob Herring To: monstr@monstr.eu Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55449 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751924AbaDWHkN (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 03:40:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <535768E1.8050609@monstr.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Mark, Michal, On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:16:49 +0200, Michal Simek wrote: > On 04/22/2014 10:32 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:38:49PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > >> The Cadence ethernet chipsets are only used on specific ARM > >> architectures. Add Kconfig dependencies so that drivers for these > >> chipsets are only buildable on the relevant architectures. > > > > Are you sure they're not used on any of the FPGA platforms like > > Microblaze? I'm not sure of anything, embedded isn't my area. > > Cadence are an IP company, I can't parse this, sorry. What is an "IP company"? > > might be worth having a FPGA > > Kconfig that architectures commonly deployed with lots of soft IPs can > > select and the IPs depend on rather than building a custom list for each > > IP. What are "soft IPs"? I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to translate your proposal into a patch, I just don't understand what you mean exactly. > macb driver can be used by Microblaze too. Thanks for the information. I will send a patch adding MICROBLAZE to the dependencies. Out of curiosity, is there any way I could have found out by myself? -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support