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

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Mar 10 2022 - 16:49:55 EST


On 3/10/22 12:33 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 10.03.2022 09:19, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> ?
>
> Florian, Kevin: do you know what other platforms need that driver?

Yes that would be ARCH_BCM_63XX.
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Florian