[PATCH] ARM: s3c64xx: don't select ARM_AMBA from S3C64XX_PL080
Mathieu Poirier
mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Thu Jun 1 07:47:00 PDT 2017
On 31 May 2017 at 14:25, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 05:58:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Yes, selecting ARM_AMBA from drivers is definitely not right; this
>> symbol should be selected only by platforms that want AMBA primecell
>> bus support, not by drivers, precisely because of these dependency
>> issues.
>>
>> There's another case where ARM_AMBA is selected that probably needs
>> fixing - the coresight hwtracing code.
>
> [Adding Mathieu to cc]
>
> Mathieu,
>
> do you remember how we ended up with this?
That was part of the initial driver submission that happened a couple
of years ago. The driver depended on AMBA and as such I added the
"select", not knowing it was preferable to have a "depends".
>
> menuconfig CORESIGHT
> bool "CoreSight Tracing Support"
> select ARM_AMBA
>
> As Russell says, probably shouldn't select that symbol, most likely
> we want either the individual drivers that register an amba_driver to have
> a 'depends on ARM_AMBA' or alternatively replace the 'select' with 'depends
> on' for the entire subsystem.
I'm good with that.
Mathieu
>
> Arnd
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