Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: make USB_DWC3_EXYNOS independent

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 13:24:08 EST


On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 06:56:38AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 3/3/21 6:05 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >> Anyway, that's the convention or consensus so far for entire SoC. If we
> >> want to change it - sure, but let's make it for everyone, not for just
> >> this one USB driver.
> >
> > Great, let's change it for everyone, I don't see a need for ARCH_*
> > symbols except for people who want to make it simpler for their one
> > board type. And for that, use a defconfig.
> >
>
> I don't think that will work in practice. Many ARCH_ symbols for various
> architectures contradict with each other. Almost all watchdog drivers
> only _build_ for specific platforms/architectures.

Great, that's horrible to hear, so much for a "generic arm64 kernel
binary" which I _thought_ was the goal.

ugh, you would have thought we would have learned our lesson with
arm32...

greg k-h