On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 10:12 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

Hi Laurent

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

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Hello,

This patch series, based on v3.12-rc7, prepares various Renesas drivers
for migration to multiplatform kernels by enabling their compilation or
otherwise fixing them on all ARM platforms. The patches are pretty
straightforward and are described in their commit message.

I'd like to get all these patches merged in v3.14. As they will need to go
through their respective subsystems' trees, I would appreciate if all
maintainers involved could notify me when they merge patches from this series
in their tree to help me tracking the merge status. I don't plan to send pull
requests individually for these patches, and I will repost patches
individually if changes are requested during review.

If you believe the issue should be solved in a different way (for instance by
removing the architecture dependency completely) please reply to the cover
letter to let other maintainers chime in.

Exactly this was my doubt. If we let these drivers build on all ARM 
platforms... Maybe we should just let them build everywhere? Unless there 
are real ARM dependencies. Maybe you could try to remove the restriction 
and try to build them all on x86?

If they have never been used on anything but ARM, why would you remove
ARM dependencies? Just for the sake of compile-checking?

Also, if ARM dependency is ever removed, all these should become 'n' by
default in the Kconfig, in order to make sure they do not slip into
defconfigs of different architectures.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy