linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: SPI_FSL_DSPI should depend on HAS

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:13:00 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Sanchayan Maity <maitysanchayan@...il.com>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: SPI_FSL_DSPI should depend on HAS_DMA

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 03:40:43PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > Honestly I think we should just fix the architectures that don't support
> > DMA to provide compile out stubs for DMA, it seems like these
> > dependencies are more trouble than they're worth.

> Will that really help?

> Then people will start adding "depends on HAS_DMA || COMPILE_TEST"
> instead...

No, I'm thinking just arrange things so that we don't need to depend on
HAS_DMA at all.

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