linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: goldfish: Remove GOLDFISH dependency

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:48:41 +0100
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: goldfish: Remove GOLDFISH dependency

Hi Geert,

On 04/01/2021 14:28:26+0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Jiaxun,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com> wrote:
> > Goldfish platform is covered with dust.
> > However the goldfish-rtc had been used as virtualized RTC
> > in QEMU for RISC-V virt hw and MIPS loongson3-virt hw, thus
> > we can drop other parts of goldfish but leave goldfish-rtc here.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
> 
> Thanks for your patch!
> 
> > --- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> > @@ -1935,7 +1935,6 @@ config RTC_DRV_HID_SENSOR_TIME
> >  config RTC_DRV_GOLDFISH
> >         tristate "Goldfish Real Time Clock"
> >         depends on OF && HAS_IOMEM
> > -       depends on GOLDFISH || COMPILE_TEST
> >         help
> >           Say yes to enable RTC driver for the Goldfish based virtual platform.
> 
> I was just looking to see if someone had already sent a patch to add
> "depends on GOLDFISH || COMPILE_TEST", before sending one myself, when I
> noticed your patch had removed it...
> 
> What about
> 
>     depends on CPU_LOONGSON64 || GOLDFISH || RISCV || COMPILE_TEST
> 
> instead?
> 

But this driver also works on ARM, is it really important to restrict to
a few architectures ?

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com