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Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:52:38 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Donghoon Yu <hoony.yu@...sung.com>,
        linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Shinbeom Choi <sbeom.choi@...sung.com>,
        Hyunki Koo <kkoos00@...er.com>, Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        HYUN-KI KOO <hyunki00.koo@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: samsung_tty: build it for any platform

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 1:13 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> wrote:
> On 2/20/20 11:26 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > There is no need to tie this driver to only a specific SoC, or compile
> > test, so remove that dependancy from the Kconfig rules.
>
> samsung_tty driver is hardware specific driver so why should we
> build it for any platform?
>
> This change seems to defeat the whole purpose behind COMPILE_TEST
> config option (which allows us to build hardware-specific drivers
> without needlessly presenting the user with tons of non-relevant
> config options).
>
> Please explain this change some more, are you planing to remove
> COMPILE_TEST config option?

+1

I was just going to send a revert...

> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > @@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ config SERIAL_CLPS711X_CONSOLE
> >
> >  config SERIAL_SAMSUNG
> >       tristate "Samsung SoC serial support"
> > -     depends on PLAT_SAMSUNG || ARCH_EXYNOS || COMPILE_TEST
> >       select SERIAL_CORE
> >       help
> >         Support for the on-chip UARTs on the Samsung S3C24XX series CPUs,
> >
> > base-commit: 11a48a5a18c63fd7621bb050228cebf13566e4d8

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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