Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: make USB_DWC3_EXYNOS independent

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 03/03/2021 16:09, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 06:56:38AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 3/3/21 6:05 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > > > Anyway, that's the convention or consensus so far for entire SoC. If we
> > > > want to change it - sure, but let's make it for everyone, not for just
> > > > this one USB driver.
> > >
> > > Great, let's change it for everyone, I don't see a need for ARCH_*
> > > symbols except for people who want to make it simpler for their one
> > > board type.  And for that, use a defconfig.
> >
> > I don't think that will work in practice. Many ARCH_ symbols for various
> > architectures contradict with each other. Almost all watchdog drivers
> > only _build_ for specific platforms/architectures.
>
> Great, that's horrible to hear, so much for a "generic arm64 kernel
> binary" which I _thought_ was the goal.
>
> ugh, you would have thought we would have learned our lesson with
> arm32...

I think Guenter here refers to drivers which actually came from arm32 
and were not cleaned up to be build without machine-specific bits 
(arch/arm/mach-xxx).

Most or all of the new code is made buildable outside of 
machine/ARCH_xxx (so COMPILE_TEST).

Best regards,
Krzysztof