linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] macintosh: Do not arbitrarily limit architecture for macintosh drivers.

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Message-ID: <1490828197.3177.193.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:56:37 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macintosh: Do not arbitrarily limit architecture for
 macintosh drivers.

On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 23:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Why not move the mac_hid module to drivers/input instead so
> it no longer depends on MACINTOSH_DRIVERS?
> 
> For the other mac drivers, it may be helpful to to add '||
> COMPILE_TEST'
> to the dependency line here to allow building them on ARM (after
> you have verified that we can in fact build them all without
> warnings),
> but that would be unrelated.

A bunch of them will rely on specific powermac infrastructure from
arch, it's likely they won't build.

Cheers,
Ben.