[PATCH] [RFC] Xilinx: Add generic configuration option to enable all xilinx drivers.

[Stephen Neuendorffer]

My feeling is if the drivers should be consistently enabled or not, then
we should enforce that consistency by the structure of the code.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: glikely at secretlab.ca [mailto:glikely at secretlab.ca] On Behalf Of
Grant Likely
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:06 PM
> To: Stephen Neuendorffer
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org; jacmet at sunsite.dk
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Xilinx: Add generic configuration option to
enable all xilinx drivers.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer
> <stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hmm... interesting points.  I guess my feeling was that
XILINX_DRIVERS could
> > be a more broadly configurable option, with some of these ideas in
mind.
> > Currently, it's hidden by default, but we could easily change this
to be
> > visible by default, or selected by a broader number of
architectures.  I
> > tend to think about them as a group: What if x86 *did* support the
> > primitives needed by these drivers, then if the individual drivers
depend on
> > XILINX_DRIVERS, then the modification could be made in one spot.  By
your
> > suggestion, we would have to modify each one independantly.
> 
> Heh; it's not *that* many drivers and it's just Kconfig stuff which is
> real easy to change.  My preference would be to eliminate
> XILINX_DRIVERS entirely, but I'm not going to fight about it.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> g.
> 
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> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.