[PATCH] serial: Make SERIAL_MPS2_UART depend on ARCH_MPS2
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri May 13 01:57:56 PDT 2016
Hi Vladimir,
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Vladimir Murzin
<vladimir.murzin at arm.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/16 19:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Enabling support for the UART on the ARM MPS2 platform only make sense
>> when compiling for the ARM MPS2 platform, unless compile-testing.
>
> What you said is true, but looking around (see SERIAL_STM32 for example)
> I'm wondering what makes MPS2 so special flake?
Nothing. SERIAL_STM32 should be fixed, too.
I only fixed SERIAL_MPS2_UART, as it was a newly-introduced symbol.
> I was under impression that architecture/board specific guard must have
> only if we have something like
>
> #include <asm/xyz.h>
>
> or
>
> #include <mach/xyz.h>
>
> which is not a case for device-tree driven MPS2 uart.
>
> I have no idea what is practice for such things, so would be grateful to
> get it known.
That's why there's an "|| COMPILE_TEST" in the dependency.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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