netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: make driver endian-safe

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Date:	Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:49:54 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
	Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
	Fugang Duan <B38611@...escale.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: make driver endian-safe

On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:52:37 Johannes Berg wrote:
> It's not clear that the ifdef there really is correct and shouldn't
> just be #ifdef CONFIG_ARM, but I also can't test on anything but the
> i.MX6 HummingBoard where this gets it working with a BE kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

I'd argue that the "(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) || defined(CONFIG_SOC_IMX28)"
is definitely wrong, because if we ever get another ARM platform
that uses this driver, it may or may not work depending on whether
the ARCH_MXC is also set, and that is not a helpful behavior.

Better make it simply CONFIG_ARM to keep the behavior independent
of config options. It won't change anything for now but any future
platform will probably work independent of configuration or would
require a bugfix at all.

	Arnd