Re: [PATCH v4] ata: Remove depends on HAS_DMA in case of platform dependency

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jul 02 2018 - 12:12:57 EST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 01:03:07PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Remove dependencies on HAS_DMA where a Kconfig symbol depends on another
> symbol that implies HAS_DMA, and, optionally, on "|| COMPILE_TEST".
> In most cases this other symbol is an architecture or platform specific
> symbol, or PCI.
>
> Generic symbols and drivers without platform dependencies keep their
> dependencies on HAS_DMA, to prevent compiling subsystems or drivers that
> cannot work anyway.
>
> This simplifies the dependencies, and allows to improve compile-testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>

This looks fine to me but how do you wanna route it? Should I apply
it to for-4.18-fixes or should it go with arch changes in some other
tree?

Thanks.

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tejun