Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev changes for 3.8

On 2012-12-16 22:35, Tony Lindgren wrote:

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Those are all omap internal devices and should be all marked with
depends on ARCH_OMAP2PLUS.

It's a different story for external devices that may be used on other
architectures.

I only came up with one reason to compile internal devices for other
architectures: In some cases the driver subsystem maintainer may want to
be able to compile test subsystem wide changes without having to compile
for each target separately. But for those cases it's trivial to carry a
compile test patch that just drops the depends Kconfig entries.

And here's a patch to limit the omap drivers above to omap only.

The patch looks good to me.

The reason I removed the OMAP dependency from OMAP DSS was not (only)
because of the compile testing, but also because I thought it was right:
a driver for an IP block shouldn't presume that the IP is used only on
particular SoC.

But perhaps that's a bit too academic approach for an IP that's in real
world only used for OMAP.

 Tomi