netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: smsc911x: don't artificially limit build

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Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 23:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mark.rutland@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: smsc911x: don't artificially limit build

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:37 +0100

> Currently the SMSC911X driver may only be built for a specific set of
> architectures, being limited to do so by a Kconfig depends line. This
> means that if a platform wishes to use the driver, its architecture must
> be added to the list explicitly, introducing pointless churn.
> 
> This may have been due to the driver's use of the {read,write}s{b,w,l}
> functions, which have since been replaced with the more standard
> io{read,write}{8,16,32}_rep. We can instead depend on HAS_IOMEM, which
> should prevent build issues while allowing the driver to be built for
> currently unlisted architectures, including x86 and arm64.
> 
> This patch removes the explicit list of architectures from the driver's
> depend line, and replaces it with a dependency on HAS_IOMEM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Applied.
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