linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch/arm/Kconfig: Make UIO available on ARM architecture

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Message-ID: <20080208094538.GC21852@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:45:38 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Marcin Juszkiewicz <openembedded@...rwu.biz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/arm/Kconfig: Make UIO available on ARM architecture

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:04:13AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 21:23 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Both situations are trivially fixable by introducing
> > HAVE_IDE and HAVE_MTD.
> > See attached patch.
> 
> HAVE_MTD is wrong.

If we are serious about allowing ARM to use drivers/Kconfig, then let's
not get distracted by perfection - by trying to do too many changes in
one go.

If, today, we conditionalise MTD or IDE on a certain set of symbols,
then those conditions should be preserved in the first step - it should
be a 1:1 translation.

Later, if there's a need to improve it (as you're suggesting) that should
be a *separate* change.
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