Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: m8xx: remove checks for four macros

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 20:39 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 13:20 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 09:36 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > This driver contains checks for four Kconfig macros. But the related
> > > Kconfig symbols have never been part of the tree. Remove these checks
> > > and the code they hide.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Untested.
> > > 
> > > This has been an issue ever since this driver was added in v2.6.15. Note
> > > that there is no header named "*/cpld.h", so setting PRxK can't possibly
> > > work.
> > > 
> > >  drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c | 75 --------------------------------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 75 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Does anything in this driver still work?  It looks like bitrot from the
> > arch/ppc days, that sort of got updated to use the device tree -- but
> > even after this patch there are lots of instances of CONFIG symbols
> > being used to assert the exact hardware being used, rather than what
> > hardware is supported.
> 
> I'm not sure I get what you're pointing at. Can you give one example?

All the various stuff enabled by CONFIG_FADS, CONFIG_MPC885ADS, etc.
such as the voltage_set() implementation.

-Scott


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