From: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 16:00:46 +0200
> The thunderx ethernet driver fails to build on architectures > that do not have an atomic readq() and writeq() function for > 64-bit PCI bus access: > > drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c: In function 'bgx_reg_read': > include/asm-generic/io.h:195:23: error: implicit declaration of function > 'readq' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] > > It seems impossible to get this driver to work on most 32-bit > hardware, so it's better to add an explicit dependency, in > order to let us keep building 'allmodconfig' kernels on > all architectures. > > As the driver is meant for the internal hardware on an arm64 SoC, this > is not a problem for usability. Allowing the build on all 64-bit > architectures rather than just CONFIG_ARM64 on the other hand means that > we get the benefit of build testing on x86. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Applied, thanks Arnd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
