[PATCH] net: ethernet: remove unneeded dependency of mvneta and update help text

[Jason Cooper]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> With the introduction of the support for Armada 375 and Armada 38x,
> the hidden Kconfig option MACH_ARMADA_370_XP is being renamed to
> MACH_MVEBU_V7. Therefore, the dependency that was used for the mvneta
> driver can no longer work.
> 
> However, such a dependency is not really necessary: there is no point
> in preventing this driver from being built in other situations, just
> like the mv643xx_eth driver. As a consequence, this commit removes the
> unnecessary Kconfig dependency.
> 
> In addition to this, it takes this opportunity to adjust the
> description and help text to indicate that the driver can is also used
> for Armada 38x. Note that Armada 375 cannot use this driver as it has
> a completely different networking unit, which will require a separate
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
> index 6300fd2..97b91f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
> @@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ config MVMDIO
>  	  This driver is used by the MV643XX_ETH and MVNETA drivers.
>  
>  config MVNETA
> -	tristate "Marvell Armada 370/XP network interface support"
> -	depends on MACH_ARMADA_370_XP

Have you build-tested this on the usual fail scenarios?  eg x86_64,
powerpc, s390, allno, allyes, allmod, etc?

I think you might be opening up pandora's box here without needing to.
:)

thx,

Jason.