[PATCH 3/4] spi: davinci: Allow SPI to be build without EDMA support

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Mon Sep 30 09:36:23 EDT 2013


On Sunday 29 September 2013 08:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:42:35PM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> 
>> DaVinci SPI IP works without EDMA support and thats how it has
>> been used on Keystone SOCs currently. Hence keep the EDMA select
>> limited to ARCH_DAVINCI so that Keystone SOCs can use the driver.
> 
>> Keystone SOC do support EDMA IP as well but the support has
>> not been added and tested so far.
> 
> If there's no hard dependency on EDMA then the driver probably ought to
> be marked as COMPILE_TEST so that it can be build tested on other
> systems.  Is that possible?
> 
EDMA is already getting tested for DAVINCI builds and there are patches
coming AMXXXX SOC support. So probably marking it COMPILE_TEST isn't
needed since it has been in use already for other SOCs.

Regards,
Santosh



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