netdev - Re: [PATCH] bgmac: make bgmac depend on bcm47xx

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:08:58 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, zajec5@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linville@...driver.com, linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: make bgmac depend on bcm47xx

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:28:49 +0200 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de> wrote:
>
> bgmac uses bcm47xx_nvram.h which is only available when BCM47XX was
> selected. Earlier BCMA_HOST_SOC depended on BCM47XX so this was not
> build on any other archs, but that changed. We should modify this
> driver to get access to the nvram or the variables through platform
> data.
> 
> This fixes a build problem in linux-next reported by Stephen Rothwell:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c:19:27: fatal error: bcm47xx_nvram.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <bcm47xx_nvram.h>
>                            ^
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

This patch really needs to go to John as the patch that exposes the
breakage is in his tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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