Re: [PATCH 2/5] gpio/xilinx: enable for MIPS

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 - 02:55:22 EST


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/14/2015 05:18 PM, SÃren Brinkmann wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 01:51PM +0100, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote:

>> Hmm, in general, this driver is hopefully generic enough that it doesn't
>> have any real architecture dependencies. And I suspect, we want to
>> enable this driver for ARM64 for ZynqMP soon too. Should we probably
>> drop these arch dependencies completely? It seems to become quite a long list.
>
> I've been thinking about this a while ago. This is certainly not the only
> driver affected by this problem. But the thing is people always complain if
> new symbols become visable in Kconfig that don't apply to their platform.

I don't think it's that important. If people go do down in the GPIO submenu
they are looking at real weird stuff anyways. Please send a patch enabling
this for all rather than coming up with strange config symbols IMO.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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