Re: [PATCHv2 2/4] dmaengine: dw_dmac: Add PCI part of the driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Sep 27 2012 - 10:42:05 EST


On Thursday 27 September 2012, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > where the first one is called by the other two, depending on the bus type.
> > This could be done either splitting the driver into multiple files so you can
> > have the platform and pci parts in separate driver modules depending on the
> > common module that does all the actual work, or everything can be put in
> > a single file with an #ifdef CONFIG_PCI to disable the pci driver parts
> > when they don't apply.
>
> probe wont be called if PCI device is not loaded, so see no reason why
> CONFIG_xxx would be needed

I assumed that you could not have a call to pci_register_driver with
CONFIG_PCI disabled. It seems that the function is stubbed out, so
you're probably right that we can do it even without the #ifdef.

Arnd
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