[PATCH 2/5] dma i.MX: remove individual SOC dependency

Michał Mirosław mirqus at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 15:42:56 EST 2011


2011/8/24 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>:
> The individual SoC dependency in Kconfig hardly scales anymore.
> Instead of having such a fine grained dependency just depend
> on ARCH_MXC and risk that the uninformed user has to look in
> the help text to figure out which driver is the correct one.
[...]
>  config MX3_IPU
>        bool "MX3x Image Processing Unit support"
> -       depends on ARCH_MX3
> +       depends on ARCH_MXC
>        select DMA_ENGINE
>        default y
>        help

You could instead make it depend on HAVE_MX3_IPU and select this
symbol from relevant model config. Leaving it for the users is making
every one of them redo the work you already did.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław



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