From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: let SJA1000 driver depend on HAS_IOMEM
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:51:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A41E91F.1020509@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A41E56F.6030302@hartkopp.net>
Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
>
>>>> the question is, if we should add HAS_IOMEM to almost every SJA1000 depended
>>>> driver like SJA1000_PLATFORM, SJA1000_OF_PLATFORM, EMS_PCI and KVASER_PCI ???
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to have a support for the SJA1000 that does *not* depend on
>>>> HAS_IOMEM?
>> In principle yes by using an appropriate driver accessing the SJA1000
>> with other methods. But I might be wrong because it does not make sense
>> hardware-wise.
>>
>>> This was my initial impression when I saw Wolfgang's suggested patch,
>>> and I still feel this way, and thus Heiko's patch seems the best for
>>> now until there is an exception.
>>>
>>> And in fact Heiko's patch has been in my tree for a while already :)
>> OK, that's fine for the moment. We may even consider making CONFIG_CAN
>> depend on HAS_IOMEM like for SPI, USB, Serial, etc.
>
> Why CONFIG_CAN ??
>
> CONFIG_CAN provides a network protocol family that can be used e.g. with the
> vcan driver without any hardware. So HAS_IOMEM only has to take care of some
> drivers, that fiddle on CAN controller registers themselves. E.g. for SPI, USB
> and Serial these 'underlying' interfaces bring their own requirements. When we
> depend on SPI, it should bring HAS_IOMEM as a dependency of SPI.
OK, then s/CONFIG_CAN/CONFIG_CAN_DEV/
Wolfgang.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 7:31 [PATCH] can: let SJA1000 driver depend on HAS_IOMEM Heiko Carstens
2009-06-23 11:19 ` David Miller
2009-06-23 19:26 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-06-24 6:52 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-06-24 7:01 ` David Miller
2009-06-24 8:26 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-06-24 8:35 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-06-24 8:51 ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2009-06-24 9:07 ` Oliver Hartkopp
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