Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 11/13] cell: split out board specific
	files
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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> Yeah, what was I thinking.  So use some platform hook instead.

You must be smoking good stuff :)

> But Arnd of course is right; if the driver (currently) only works
> on a certain platform, just mark it as such in the Makefile (erm,
> Kconfig file).

Exactly :) I don't see any point in adding hooks or ifdef's or anything
fancy like that to guard from something that doesn't exist in real life:
that is building that driver on non-cell :) Thus Kconfig is the way to
go.


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