netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: cadence: Add architecture dependencies

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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:34:02 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: cadence: Add architecture dependencies

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:14:41PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 12:48 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:

> > Originally I wanted to hide the Cadence drivers from X86 kernel
> > configuration. If there's still a way to achieve that, let's do it. If
> > not, we can leave the hardware dependency for ARM_AT91_ETHER and drop
> > the one for MACB (and subsequently NET_CADENCE.) That's still better
> > than nothing.

> Any reason to hide this driver for x86?

Distro maintainers like Jean are complaining about build times for their
kernels if they enable absolutely everything so if they're never likely
to see any hardware using something they want to skip it.

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