Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: bcm63xx: use more precise Kconfig symbol

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Mar 10 2022 - 03:20:15 EST


Hi Rafał,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 8:22 AM Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Patches lowering SERIAL_BCM63XX dependencies led to a discussion and
> documentation change regarding "depends" usage. Adjust Kconfig entry to
> match current guidelines. Make this symbol available for relevant
> architectures only.
>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Ref: f35a07f92616 ("tty: serial: bcm63xx: lower driver dependencies")
> Ref: 18084e435ff6 ("Documentation/kbuild: Document platform dependency practises")
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -1100,7 +1100,8 @@ config SERIAL_TIMBERDALE
> config SERIAL_BCM63XX
> tristate "Broadcom BCM63xx/BCM33xx UART support"
> select SERIAL_CORE
> - depends on COMMON_CLK
> + depends on MIPS || ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
> + default ARCH_BCM4908 || BCM63XX || BMIPS_GENERIC

So ARCH_BCM4908 covers ARM64, and BCM63XX || BMIPS_GENERIC
cover MIPS. Is there some symbol covering ARM so we can change the
depends to

depends on FOO || ARCH_BCM4908 || BCM63XX || BMIPS_GENERIC || COMPILE_TEST

?

Anyway, this is definitely a step in the good direction!

> help
> This enables the driver for the onchip UART core found on
> the following chipsets:

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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