[PATCH 00/19] Enable various Renesas drivers on all ARM platforms

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Oct 29 10:23:31 PDT 2013


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:05:53PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> The first one is that I can't compile-test all those drivers on all 
> architectures. The spi-sh-msiof driver, for instance, uses io(read|write)(16|

Which architectures are these and is there not a symbol we can depend on
for them?

> 32) which are not available on all architectures. There might be other similar 
> problems that I can't catch, and I don't want to introduce build breakages in 
> the kernel.

This is easy enough to handle if we do run into issues, it seems better
to get things available than try to step through architecture by
architecture.

> The second reason is that, as the IP cores have never been used on anything 
> but SuperH and ARM, I don't like the idea of clobbering the config process 
> with drivers that are useless on the target architecture. Now that we have a 
> COMPILE_TEST Kconfig option, my preference would thus go to SUPERH || ARM || 
> COMPILE_TEST over no dependency at all.

That's not what you did, though - you're not adding COMPILE_TEST.
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