linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option

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Message-ID: <20160218113207.5ffffee2@xhacker>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:32:07 +0800
From:	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>
To:	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
CC:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, <linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option

Dear Andre,

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:43:53 +0000
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com> wrote:

> To prepare for the Allwinner A64 SoC support, introduce a config
> option to allow compiling Allwinner (aka. sunxi) specific drivers
> for the arm64 architecture as well.
> This patch just defines the ARCH_SUNXI symbol to allow Allwinner
> specific drivers to be selected during kernel configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> index 8a09522..2f7f69b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
>  menu "Platform selection"
>  
> +config ARCH_SUNXI

it's better to keep ARCH_YYZZ sorted in alphabetic order

Thanks,
Jisheng

> +	bool "Allwinner sunxi 64-bit SoC Family"
> +	help
> +	  This enables support for Allwinner sunxi based SoCs like the A64.
> +
>  config ARCH_BCM_IPROC
>  	bool "Broadcom iProc SoC Family"
>  	help