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From:   Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:44:21 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 46/47] net: ethernet: freescale: make UCC_GETH
 explicitly depend on PPC32
To:     Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org>
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        Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:37 PM Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:04 AM Rasmus Villemoes
> <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, QUICC_ENGINE depends on PPC32, so this in itself does not
> > change anything. In order to allow removing the PPC32 dependency from
> > QUICC_ENGINE and avoid allmodconfig build failures, add this explicit
> > dependency.
>
> Can you add an explanation why we don't want ucc_geth on non-PowerPC platforms?

I think it is because the QE Ethernet was never integrated in any
non-PowerPC SoC and most likely will not be in the future.  We
probably can make it compile for other architectures for general code
quality but it is not a priority.

Regards,
Leo