linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bcma: Add dependency on OF

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Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:18:31 +0200
From:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
CC:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcma: Add dependency on OF_ADDRESS

On 10/09/14 19:15, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 10/09/14 18:54, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> On 9 October 2014 18:41, Guenter Roeck<linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>>> Commit 2101e533f41a ("bcma: register bcma as device tree driver")
>>> introduces a hard dependency on OF_ADDRESS into the bcma driver.
>>> OF_ADDRESS is specifically disabled for the sparc architecture.
>>> This results in the following error when building sparc64:allmodconfig.
>
> Does this mean on sparc (using allmodconfig) you will get CONFIG_OF and
> !CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS? Does that makes sense?

Is CONFIG_OF is used on sparc to access OpenBoot information?

Regards,
Arend

> btw. the OF_ADDRESS dependency was introduced by commit "bcma: get IRQ
> numbers from dt".
>
> Regards,
> Arend
>
>> Won't this make bcma im-POSSIBLE on MIPS? And maybe x86(_64), or at
>> least add an unneeded dependency? I think we should somehow limit this
>> to BCM5301X arch.
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