Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: bcm63xx: allow building on ARM64

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:38:50AM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 25.11.2020 09:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:13:52AM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > > From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Hardware supported by bcm63xx is also used by BCM4908 SoCs family that
> > > is ARM64.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 3 ++-
> > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > > index 28f22e58639c..6907c5b17a0e 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > > @@ -1133,7 +1133,8 @@ config SERIAL_TIMBERDALE
> > >   config SERIAL_BCM63XX
> > >   	tristate "Broadcom BCM63xx/BCM33xx UART support"
> > >   	select SERIAL_CORE
> > > -	depends on MIPS || ARM || COMPILE_TEST
> > > +	depends on MIPS || ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
> > 
> > Why do we have an arch dependancy at all now?
> 
> From my experience "depends" is often used to limit symbol visibility to
> applicable platforms only. I don't think Broadcom has any x86, risc, etc.
> platforms so it's useless there.
> 
> As for testing driver compilation on unused arch-s I thought that's what
> COMPILE_TEST is for.
> 
> Am I wrong there? I'm afraid we don't have clear Documentation on that.
> Please kindly point me to some info if I'm wrong.

If COMPILE_TEST is working for this driver, then trying to restrict it
to a specific arch is usually pointless and the arch dependency can be
removed, keeping patches like this from having to be made over time to
add it to new arches :)

> > > +	default ARCH_BCM4908
> > 
> > Really?  I thought we were getting rid of these "ARCH_platform_type" of
> > things.  That's what a defconfig file is for, right?
> 
> I had to miss something, last time I checked Linus called defconfigs a
> garbage and wanted to get rid of them:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/391372/
> 
> There are also no platform defconfigs in arch/arm64/ at all. Should I
> handle it with arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms and "select SERIAL_BCM63XX"?

I thought we were trying to get rid of arm64 "platforms" as well.  My
point being, why is this needed at all?

thanks,

greg k-h



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