netdev - Re: [RFC] dependencies for platform drivers (was Re: ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies)

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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:08:44 +0000
From:	Ben Dooks <ben@...ff.org>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ben-linux@...ff.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] dependencies for platform drivers (was Re: ax88796: add
	superh to kconfig dependencies)

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:40:23PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:26:52AM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > If writesb() is not an official API then maybe the answer should have been
> > to either add that API to other architectures or fix the driver.
> > 
> > I guess this incident means I need to go through all Kconfig* files to
> > see what bogus architecture dependencies on MIPS or !MIPS exist ...
> > 
> While writesb() isn't an official API, the iowriteX_rep() interfaces
> theoretically are. Tidying up the driver for iomap is probably a better
> option.

If anyone else isn't interested in doing this, and there are
no objections to having it done, then I would be willing to
look at moving to the iowrite interfaces.

The only other way would be to add an 8/16bit configuration
to drop the use of writesb, as I belive most people connect
these devices in 16bit mode.

-- 
Ben (ben@...ff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)

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