Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Stefan Roese wrote: > >> On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: >> >>> With this Kconfig change, "make menuconfig" lets me select the >>> i2c-ibm_iic driver on x86_64, but it fails to build horribly. I think >>> that you want to restrict the build to PPC machines somehow, or at >>> least make sure that either IBM_OCP or OF support is present. >>> >> How about this: >> >> - depends on IBM_OCP >> + depends on 4xx >> > > I think we should allow it to be built on other platforms as well, > as long as they have of_platform_device support. > > The Axon south bridge used on IBMs QS21 blade probably has an ibm_iic, > even though it's managed by the firmware and we probably don't want > to use it at this time, someone could use the same chip in a new > design and actually do that. > > In general, I also like to make it possible to enable drivers just > for the benefit of compile testing, even for stuff that you can't > find in any existing HW configuration, so as long as it builds on > a platform, I think we shouldn't forbid it: > > - depends on IBM_OCP > + depends on IBM_OCP || PPC_MERGE > > I have no problem with this change. If everybody agrees, I can respin the patch.
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