Re: [PATCH 0/4] sparc: drop SBUS ifdefs

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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:36, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:23:43 +1100
>
>> And beyond that, keeping these (unnecessary) #ifdefs is good
>> documentation - it makes it obvious that these drivers require sbus to
>> function.
>
> It should be buildable on any platform that has CONFIG_OF support,
> as all of the SBUS drivers only use generic OF and dma_*() interfaces.
>
> And this has value because it increases build testing.

Oh, yes, forgot that =)

That said, sunhme has SBUS conditionals around calls to
sbus_can_burst64() and sbus_can_dma_64bit() - I'm not sure if the
other drivers also use similar functions to determine what they can /
should do and whether this would break things.

Thanks,

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