linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] lightnvm: Remove depends on HAS

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Message-ID: <137ed21c-420f-6593-b969-f57df59ece94@kernel.dk>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:07:26 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Matias Bjorling <mb@...htnvm.io>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] lightnvm: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of
 platform dependency

On 6/22/18 5:05 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Remove dependencies on HAS_DMA where a Kconfig symbol depends on another
> symbol that implies HAS_DMA, and, optionally, on "|| COMPILE_TEST".
> In most cases this other symbol is an architecture or platform specific
> symbol, or PCI.
> 
> Generic symbols and drivers without platform dependencies keep their
> dependencies on HAS_DMA, to prevent compiling subsystems or drivers that
> cannot work anyway.
> 
> This simplifies the dependencies, and allows to improve compile-testing.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe