Re: [PATCH RFC 06/11] crypto: caam - Enable MXC devices to select CAAM driver in Kconfig

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:14:31PM +0300, Horia Geantă wrote:
>
> Even more, not all SOC_IMX6 variants have a CAAM block.
> 
> Not sure what's better:
> -try to exactly indicate the HW that has the IP
> -only name the arch / SoC (provided compilation passes), and then depend
> on defconfig and/or device tree (and possibly boot loader dynamically
> fixing the DT)
> 
> For e.g. Sahara crypto driver also depends on ARCH_MXC and it's not
> available on all i.MX SoCs.

Kconfig entry dependencies do not have to guarantee the existence
of the device.  It only has to guarantee the ability to compile the
code.

Cheers,
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