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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	"Nikula, Jani" <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] (group) maintainership models
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:06:23 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160729100623.09d2c78c@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160728234823.GH1494@piout.net>

Hi Alexandre,

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:48:23 +0200 Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/07/2016 at 10:44:23 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> > Some subsystems have essential drivers without which a platform cannot
> > work (clock, irqchip, reset, ...) and those often don't allow the
> > driver to be user-selectable at all. I'd like to see more of those
> > get enabled for COMPILE_TEST, but the Kconfig statement for this
> > is rather unintuitive:
> > 
> > config FOO
> > 	bool "foo driver" if COMPILE_TEST && !ARCH_FOO
> > 	default ARCH_FOO
> > 	depends on GPIOLIB && I2C && OF && WHATEVER
> > 
> > This becomes a silent always-on symbol if the platform is used,
> > and user-selectable on every other platform with COMPILE_TEST.
> >   
> 
> Note that some maintainers prefer having the symbol selected directly
> from ARCH_FOO or SOC_FOO instead of defaulting to it which may be more
> explicit. I'm fine with both but my subsystem is not exactly essential
> ;)

You should avoid, if at all possible, selecting any symbol that has
dependencies ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-29  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20 12:11 [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] (group) maintainership models Daniel Vetter
2016-07-22 20:02 ` Darren Hart
2016-07-25  5:57   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-26 16:22     ` Darren Hart
2016-07-28 22:13       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-07-26 16:45 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-27  3:04   ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-27  5:34     ` Wolfram Sang
2016-07-27  7:53     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-07-27 12:57       ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-27 14:22         ` Mark Brown
2016-07-27 17:15           ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-28  8:44             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-07-28 23:48               ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-07-29  0:06                 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2016-07-31 17:57               ` Vinod Koul
2016-08-01  6:56                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-01  7:36                   ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-08-01 14:10                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-02  4:46                       ` Vinod Koul
2016-08-02  6:48                         ` Peter Ujfalusi
2016-08-02  7:27                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-02  8:29                             ` Peter Ujfalusi
2016-08-02  8:33                           ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-08-02  9:49                             ` Tony Lindgren
2016-08-02  8:41                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-02  9:21                             ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-08-02  9:27                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-09-02 10:46                   ` Vinod Koul
2016-09-02 17:25                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-02 20:06                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-02 20:26                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-02 20:26                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-02 20:43                           ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-02 20:43                             ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-02 20:50                             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-02 20:50                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-02 22:16                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-09-02 22:16                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-09-03 14:02                           ` Michael Ellerman
2016-09-03 14:02                             ` Michael Ellerman
2016-09-02 23:35                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-04 17:45                       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-09-04 17:59                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-03  0:07                     ` Mark Brown
2016-07-27 12:59     ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-27 13:03   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-01 14:42 ` Jani Nikula
2016-09-07  5:03 Leon Romanovsky

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