> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:18:54 +0000 Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:31:05PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > > config AX88796 > > tristate "ASIX AX88796 NE2000 clone support" > > - depends on ARM || MIPS > > + depends on ARM || MIPS || SUPERH > > You know, that really sucks more and more. How about doing the following: > a) making it depend on PLAT_HAS_AX88796 > b) adding selects for all subarchitectures that have the corresponding > platform device > and setting that as a uniform policy for platform drivers?
Yup, but we should be religious about the naming conventions. ARCH_HAS_ and PLAT_HAS_ followed by the exact name of the thus-enabled config option. > For things like > SM501 we would do > config MFD_SM501 > depends on PCI || PLAT_HAS_SM501 > etc. See, bug. That should be PLAT_HAS_MFD_SM501 > Seriously, folks, we are getting shitloads of platform drivers with no > dependencies whatsoever, needed on a handful of targets and occasionally > failing to build on unrelated architectures. Moreover, having a list > of architectures in dependencies for each of those suckers is a PITA > from the conflict POV. Not to mention platform drivers that fall into > the mainline kernel with not a single platform device for them, etc. > > Comments? grep PPC drivers/*/Kconfig and weep. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
