[PATCH v3 2/2] mtd: rawnand: ingenic: Limit MTD_NAND_JZ4780 to architecture only

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Fri Jul 24 11:33:42 EDT 2020


On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 17:19, Paul Cercueil <paul at crapouillou.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
>
> Le ven. 24 juil. 2020 à 16:54, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> a
> écrit :
> > Enabling the MTD_NAND_JZ4780 driver makes sense only for specific
> > hardware - the Ingenic SoC architecture.  Set it's dependency to
> > MACH_INGENIC so it will not appear on unrelated architectures (easier
> > job for downstream/distro kernel engineers).
>
> Disagreed. It was done this way so that distro kernels can support
> multiple SoCs.

They will still be able to support multiple SoCs. Nothing changed
here. The same we do for all ARM drivers (SoCs are multiplatform)...
Unless you want to say that it is possible to support Ingenic SoC
without MACH_INGENIC?

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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