Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] dmaengine: fsl-edma: add ColdFire mcf5441x edma support

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On 28-06-18, 08:50, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:29 AM Vinod <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 22-06-18, 11:44, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_EP93XX_DMA) += ep93xx_dma.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_DMA) += fsldma.o
> > >  obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_EDMA) += fsl-edma.o fsl-edma-common.o
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MCF_EDMA) += mcf-edma.o fsl-edma-common.o
> >
> > that makes kernel have two copies of common.o one in thsi driver and one
> 
> Does it? It's a common pattern in several Makefiles (e.g.
> drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile and drivers/scsi/Makefile)

won't each static symbol be part each one? What about when they are
modules?

> > in previous one why not do:
> >
> > CONFIG_FSL_COMMON += fsl-edma-common.o
> > CONFIG_FSL_EDMA += fsl-edma.o
> > CONFIG_MCF_EDMA += mcf-edma.o
> >
> > and you select CONFIG_FSL_COMMON in both FSL and MCF Kconfig?
> 
> That's what he had originally, until I suggested to do the above, as
> nothing else
> needed the CONFIG_FSL_COMMON symbol.

Hmmm, okay what are we gaining from this approach?

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~Vinod
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