netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 46/47] net: ethernet: freescale: make UCC

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Message-ID: <CADRPPNS00uU+f6ap9D-pYQUFo_T-o2bgtnYaE9qAXOwck86-OQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:44:21 -0600
From:   Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>
To:     Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 46/47] net: ethernet: freescale: make UCC_GETH
 explicitly depend on PPC32

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:37 PM Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:04 AM Rasmus Villemoes
> <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, QUICC_ENGINE depends on PPC32, so this in itself does not
> > change anything. In order to allow removing the PPC32 dependency from
> > QUICC_ENGINE and avoid allmodconfig build failures, add this explicit
> > dependency.
>
> Can you add an explanation why we don't want ucc_geth on non-PowerPC platforms?

I think it is because the QE Ethernet was never integrated in any
non-PowerPC SoC and most likely will not be in the future.  We
probably can make it compile for other architectures for general code
quality but it is not a priority.

Regards,
Leo