kirkwood devicetree respin

Haojian Zhuang haojian.zhuang at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 19:42:28 EST 2012


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:21:45PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> >
>> >> ehci-orion only makes sense on PLAT_ORION, and they never have any
>> >> other platform ehci driver.
>> >>
>> >> ehci-mv only makese sense on PLAT_PXA, and they ?also don't have any
>> >> other platform ehci driver.
>> >
>> > BTW, as someone who once was the active maintainer for PXA, and later
>> > the active maintainer for Orion, I should say that ehci-mv is a terribly
>> > bad name (as demonstrated, not all Marvell SOCs use ehci-mv) and
>> > confusion would be much reduced if it was renamed to ehci-pxa.
>> >
>> >
>> OK. We could try to rename ehci-mv to ehci-pxa.
>>
>> By the way, we aren't allowed to append "depends on PLAT_PXA" in Kconfig.
>
> Hi Hoajian
>
> Could you explain that a bit more? What was the reason you could not
> append it? Is the driver used by some other platform as well?
>
>       Thanks
>        Andrew

The driver isn't used by any other platform. It's only used in
arch-pxa & arch-mmp.

I can't find the original mail. But I remembered that maintainer said
the driver should be built with any other platform, even with x86. So
we aren't allowed to append it in Kconfig.

Best Regards
Haojian


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