[PATCH] AT91: add AT91SAM9X5 dummy configuration variable

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:02:52PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > yet you will prevent the driver from being easily used by other
> > architectures. What will happen is that a certain amount of:
> > 
> > depends on (ARCH_AT91SAM9X5 || ARCH_FOO || ARCH_BAR || ARCH_BAZ)
> no I disagree this is done to allow only the drivers on proper arch
> 
> and we do not need the multiple depend we usally create a HAVE_xxx config
> that the ARCH select and we just depend on it

I still think it isn't good enough. Ideally, drivers will always be
portable without any arch dependency or the HAVE_XXX trick. Still, it's
not worth to continue this discussion, I rather look at a driver which
now depends on ARCH_AT91SAM9X5.

-- 
balbi
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