From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE081C43215 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D4620733 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:31:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1573828308; bh=z4t0QNOpMSUfT6xxNqEGeyK4kvswHzvxvuh4u4MxWE4=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=faGLFDsloObCtPIFJcIqls3SQzH/6idpRN+JrPamrxDTnv+24k7M4NnDhsz9YNAdK b+wVFa2b4rTQt1cZ1s/nxkOXzX5ORdzuWYTNFT7+TMuBM6mFSMN0R/x0qOhYg1mrC0 HWybivK51pV8mb/4rDwoieGRAvhM2Eq5HWxWhnXk= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727585AbfKOObq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:31:46 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:49082 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727380AbfKOObq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:31:46 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (cpe-24-28-70-126.austin.res.rr.com [24.28.70.126]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ABC7D2072D; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:31:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1573828305; bh=z4t0QNOpMSUfT6xxNqEGeyK4kvswHzvxvuh4u4MxWE4=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=tMCfohkEdQO5MZtypr3lSf1IVaJNmcuvM+seUixNNfXHYT1wU3BcK1Cfe+diLM0eV fyzg3L/GNsHDQ+PhCDP+S6JRz0JMtKXb/fISpdS5IYkDXiRF5RBdamtlBk10zLLTLj TmouuZ3KKjaXi3Y2CWdFcKM2A7/uTmgAkKcO5vH8= Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 46/47] net: ethernet: freescale: make UCC_GETH explicitly depend on PPC32 To: Li Yang Cc: Rasmus Villemoes , Qiang Zhao , Christophe Leroy , linuxppc-dev , linux-arm-kernel , lkml , Scott Wood , netdev References: <20191108130123.6839-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <20191108130123.6839-47-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> From: Timur Tabi Message-ID: <52639dfc-d558-8a92-5e2e-8ec18f39b383@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:31:42 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 11/14/19 11:44 PM, Li Yang wrote: >> Can you add an explanation why we don't want ucc_geth on non-PowerPC platforms? > I think it is because the QE Ethernet was never integrated in any > non-PowerPC SoC and most likely will not be in the future. We > probably can make it compile for other architectures for general code > quality but it is not a priority. This explanation belongs in the commit message.