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Message-ID: <20140218134532.7607a616@skate>
Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:45:32 +0100
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: remove unneeded dependency of mvneta and
 update help text

Dear Jason Cooper,

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:29:52 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:

> >  config MVNETA
> > -	tristate "Marvell Armada 370/XP network interface support"
> > -	depends on MACH_ARMADA_370_XP
> 
> Have you build-tested this on the usual fail scenarios?  eg x86_64,
> powerpc, s390, allno, allyes, allmod, etc?
> 
> I think you might be opening up pandora's box here without needing to.
> :)

No, I haven't tested all the build scenarios of course. If you feel
that this is too dangerous, I can resend a patch that replaces 'depends
on ARMADA_370_XP' by 'depends on PLAT_ORION'. Would this be OK for you?

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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