Re: [PATCH v2 14/21] mtd: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of platform dependency

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/21] mtd: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of platform dependency
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:06:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdW2ohqEC2QZ8p7d9cN08a14pV19VcyWMKLS-egzc5JLMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180318230410.382f69a1@bbrezillon>

Hi Boris,

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:51:47 +0100
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
>> Remove dependencies on HAS_DMA where a Kconfig symbol depends on another
>> symbol that implies HAS_DMA, and, optionally, on "|| COMPILE_TEST".
>> In most cases this other symbol is an architecture or platform specific
>> symbol, or PCI.
>>
>> Generic symbols and drivers without platform dependencies keep their
>> dependencies on HAS_DMA, to prevent compiling subsystems or drivers that
>> cannot work anyway.
>>
>> This simplifies the dependencies, and allows to improve compile-testing.
>>
>
> Don't know which release you're targeting but it's likely to conflict
> with the change I have in my nand/next branch. Is this a problem if I
> take this patch through the mtd tree after [1] has reached Linus' tree?

No problem, I will rebase and resubmit after v4.17-rc1.

> [1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/16/435
>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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