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Message-ID: <20140218154512.GA10691@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:45:12 -0300
From:	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: remove unneeded dependency of mvneta and
 update help text

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:10:27PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
[..]
> 
> At the very end of the clean up, when even Orion5x support will be
> merged in mach-mvebu/, then we can certainly replace these dependencies
> by a "depends on ARCH_MVEBU". But for the time being, PLAT_ORION seems
> like the right common denominator for all these platforms.
> 

Last time we talked about this with Sebastian and Andrew it was decided
that the right choice is:

  MACH_KIRKWOOD || MACH_DOVE || MACH_ARMADA_370_XP

Which would become MACH_MVEBU.

Of course, this is near the nitpick boundary, so AFAIC you can leave
PLAT_ORION as in v2, if you feel like.
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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