[PATCH v3] iommu: shmobile: Enable the driver on all ARM platforms

[Simon Horman]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:28:54AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> > > For similar reasons as x86, can we please think about using:
> 
> > > 	depends on ARM
> > > 	depends on ARCH_SHMOBILE || ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI || COMPILE_TEST
> 
> > I'm fine with your proposed option. As I don't want to respin the series 
> > dozens of time let's first agree on the course of action, I will then repost 
> > the patches. Mark, you've pushed towards as few platform dependencies as 
> > possible, what's your opinion on this ?
> 
> In general I think we should have whatever the real depedencies are or
> COMPILE_TEST (to the extent that they will actually build cleanly on
> other targets).  That way only people who explicitly go looking to
> compile test things for build coverage (eg, when doing global cleanups
> or API updates) need to be bothered by the extra compile test options.
> 
> I'd read the above as saying the code needs ARM to build at all and that
> the hardware will only ever appear on SHMOBILE.

I am curious to know the value of "depends ARM".
Is it to aid the reading that you spelt out?