[PATCH 1/2] ARM: Rename ARCH_SHMOBILE to ARCH_SHMOBILE_LEGACY

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Nov 12 19:53:29 EST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 02:21:04PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Tuesday 12 November 2013 14:26:25 Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 02:11:37PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 01:33:48PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > SH-Mobile platforms are transitioning from non-multiplatform to
> > > > multiplatform kernel. A new ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI configuration symbol has
> > > > been created to group all multiplatform-enabled SH-Mobile SoCs. The
> > > > existing ARCH_SHMOBILE configuration symbol groups SoCs that haven't
> > > > been converted yet.
> > > > 
> > > > This arrangement works fine for the arch/ code, but lots of drivers
> > > > needed on both ARCH_SHMOBILE and ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI depend on
> > > > ARCH_SHMOBILE only. In order to avoid changing them, rename
> > > > ARCH_SHMOBILE to ARCH_SHMOBILE_LEGACY, and create a new boolean
> > > > ARCH_SHMOBILE configuration symbol that is selected by both
> > > > ARCH_SHMOBILE_LEGACY and ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > > > <laurent.pinchart+renesas at ideasonboard.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Magnus Damm <damm at opensource.se>
> > > 
> > > Thanks, I have queued this up.
> > 
> > I have dropped this for now as it seems that all of the
> > shmobile defconfigs now need to be updated to use ARCH_SHMOBILE_LEGACY
> > instead of ARCH_SHMOBILE.
> 
> Indeed, I forgot about that.
> 
> > It seems to me that needs to be part of this patch to avoid
> > breaking bisecatability. Any thoughts?
> 
> The only bisection this would break is the defconfig bisection. I'm not sure 
> whether we need to care about that, Would that be a bit issue ? I'll submit a 
> separate patch, please feel free to squash it with this one if you believe it 
> should be.

To be honest I'm unsure.
But I think that I am leaning towards keeping the patches separate.



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