Re: [PATCH 1/8 resend] dw_dmac: Remove compilation dependency fromAVR32

From: Shiraz Hashim
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 23:19:40 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:42:42AM +0800, Viresh KUMAR wrote:
> On 03/02/2011 10:16 PM, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 16:11 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

[...]

> >> drivers/dma/Kconfig | 1 -
> >> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> >> index 1c28816..95c7db7 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> >> @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ config INTEL_IOP_ADMA
> >>
> >> config DW_DMAC
> >> tristate "Synopsys DesignWare AHB DMA support"
> >> - depends on AVR32
> > Shouldn't you be adding a corresponding depends on new arch? And since
> > this supports old arch as well, it should say depends on both...
>
> Why should this driver be dependent on ARM or AVR32? It can be present
> on any other arch too.. So i thought removing this dependency all together
> is better.

There could be a dependency on HAVE_CLK as it uses clock APIs.

--
regards
Shiraz
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