Re: [PATCH] riscv: move sifive_l2_cache.c to drivers/soc

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Sep 07 2019 - 00:40:43 EST


On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:36:09PM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> One other comment on this patch:
>
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/edac/Kconfig b/drivers/edac/Kconfig
> > > index 200c04ce5b0e..9241b3e7a050 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/edac/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/edac/Kconfig
> > > @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ config EDAC_ALTERA_SDMMC
> > >
> > > config EDAC_SIFIVE
> > > bool "Sifive platform EDAC driver"
> > > - depends on EDAC=y && RISCV
> > > + depends on EDAC=y && SIFIVE_L2
>
> Since the guidance from the EDAC maintainers is that this driver is to be
> a platform driver -- which would, for example, also include EDAC support for
> other IP blocks (e.g., DRAM controllers) on SiFive SoCs -- this should
> depend on SOC_SIFIVE, not SIFIVE_L2.

But as-is without major changes it depends on SIFIVE_L2. And given that
it supports nothing else as-is there is no point in making the code
conditional either.