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

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Oct 31 20:39:30 EDT 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:49:45AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 03:03:05PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > 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'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?
> 
> That's a function of the compile time dependencies, if ARM is required
> to build then it needs to be an unconditional dependency.

Thanks, sorry for missing the obvious.



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