Add a configuration entry (MACH_HAS_PATA_PLATFORM) so that any machine
impelementing a pata_platform driver can add this to their own Kconfig
to enable the PATA_PLATFORM driver.
This will avoid multiple patches to the drivers/ata/Kconfig when new
machine support is added.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.24-rc3/Documentation/dontdiff
linux-2.6.24-rc3/drivers/ata/Kconfig linux-2.6.24-rc3-pata1/drivers/ata/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.24-rc3/drivers/ata/Kconfig 2007-10-09 21:31:38.000000000
+0100
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc3-pata1/drivers/ata/Kconfig 2007-11-19 12:25:03.000000000
+0000
@@ -560,9 +560,17 @@ config PATA_WINBOND_VLB
Support for the Winbond W83759A controller on Vesa Local Bus
systems.
+config MACH_HAS_PATA_PLATFORM
+ bool
+ help
+ This is an internal configuration node for any machine that
+ uses pata-platform driver to enable the relevant driver in the
+ configuration structure without having to submit endless patches
+ to update the PATA_PLATFORM entry.
+
config PATA_PLATFORM
tristate "Generic platform device PATA support"
- depends on EMBEDDED || ARCH_RPC
+ depends on EMBEDDED || ARCH_RPC || MACH_HAS_PATA_PLATFORM
help
This option enables support for generic directly connected ATA
devices commonly found on embedded systems.
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