Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific files

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > Well, it could run on other platforms, except:
> > >
> > > - it requires a few properties in the device tree (local-mac- 
> > > address,
> > >   firmware), so it should also depend on PPC
> >
> > The portions of code that require OF should have appropriate #ifdef
> > guards.
>
> So you're suggesting that we change the Makefile so we can *add*
> ifdefs?  Usually we do it the other way around. :)

Yeah, what was I thinking.  So use some platform hook instead.

But Arnd of course is right; if the driver (currently) only works
on a certain platform, just mark it as such in the Makefile (erm,
Kconfig file).

Hey, we should probably do that with 90% of all drivers.  But that
is a discussion for some other day :-)


Segher

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