[PATCH 1/3] pinctrl: mvebu: allow plat-orion architectures to use pinctrl-mvebu

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> The mach-kirkwood and mach-dove architectures have not yet been
> integrated into the mach-mvebu directory, which should ultimately
> contain the support for all Marvell SoCs from the Engineering Business
> Unit.
>
> However, before this can happen, we need to let mach-kirkwood and
> mach-dove use the pinctrl-mvebu driver, which supports the kirkwood
> and dove SoC families. In order to do that, we make this driver
> available as soon as PLAT_ORION is selected, instead of using
> ARCH_MVEBU as a condition. In the long term, PLAT_ORION should
> disappear and be fully replaced by ARCH_MVEBU, but the plan is to make
> the migration step by step, by first having the existing mach-*
> directories for Marvell SoCs converge on several infrastructures,
> including the pinctrl one.
>
> Also, like the spear pinctrl driver, we put all pinctrl-mvebu Kconfig
> options under a if, in order to avoid having certain options
> (PINCTRL_DOVE, PINCTRL_KIRKWOOD, etc.) selecting an option
> (PINCTLR_MVEBU) which itself has a dependency (on ARCH_MVEBU). In this
> a construct, the dependency is in fact ignored due to the selects.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

OK makes sense, patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij