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

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Message-ID: <20180702161248.GG533219@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:12:48 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ata: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of platform
 dependency

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 01:03:07PM +0200, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>

This looks fine to me but how do you wanna route it?  Should I apply
it to for-4.18-fixes or should it go with arch changes in some other
tree?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun