Hi Marc,
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:18 PM Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21.06.2021 22:11:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 8:47 PM Angelo Dureghello
> > <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Update flexcan to support architectures without fdt.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Angelo Dureghello <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Changes for v2:
> > > none
> > > Changes for v3:
> > > - change to just remove OF
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/can/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/can/Kconfig b/drivers/net/can/Kconfig
> > > index e355d3974977..a0f4ae7ccb84 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/can/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/can/Kconfig
> > > @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ config CAN_AT91
> > >
> > > config CAN_FLEXCAN
> > > tristate "Support for Freescale FLEXCAN based chips"
> > > - depends on OF && HAS_IOMEM
> > > + depends on HAS_IOMEM
> >
> > I think you want to add a line
> >
> > depends on ARCH_LAYERSCAPE || ARCH_MXC || COLDFIRE ||
> > FSL_SOC_BOOKE || COMPILE_TEST
> >
> > (or PPC instead of FSL_SOC_BOOKE?)
> > so the question doesn't pop up when compiling a kernel for a system
> > that cannot have a Freescale FlexCAN IP block.
>
> Back in 2018 Pankaj Bansal replaced the "depends on ARM || PPC" by "OF
> && HAS_IOMEM", see:
>
> | 0f8af56f74cd can: flexcan: enable flexcan for all architectures
Probably the real reason behind that was to enable it on ARM64
(more specifically ARCH_LAYERSCAPE || ARCH_MXC).
> So I think there won't be too many configs where the oldconfig question
> would pop up.
Now it will, as Mr. Torvalds' main machine does not satisfy "ARM || PPC"
or "OF && HAS_IOMEM", but does "HAS_IOMEM" ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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