[PATCH v2 2/4] [libata] pata_of_platform: OF-Platform PATA device driver

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Sat Dec 15 03:33:05 EST 2007


On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:09:28AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:23:13AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:39:12PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > Why is it dependent on anything other than platform bus support and ATA?
> > 
> > There's no way to specify dependency on platform bus as a config option,
> > that's likely what EMBEDDED was meant to do. Some platforms have platform
> > bus in spite of being !EMBEDDED, arch/arm/configs/rpc_defconfig seems
> > to be among those. PPC too.
> 
> If platform bus can't be configged out, then the only dependency should
> be the implicit one on ATA (is there anything else whose absence will
> stop the code from building, or working if the appropriate platform
> device is passed in?).

Sure, sounds good to me.


-Olof



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