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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	Wei Xu <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
	Linux I2C <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linuxarm <linuxarm@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: I2C_HISI should depend on ARCH_HISI && ACPI
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:18:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHcx+QPbkTA0bv9V@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdVouD+e4GpN_Dur8HSop4B8HVosGSYw7vfTpBEi_inMbw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 08:06:18PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:24 AM Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> > On 2021/4/13 20:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > The HiSilicon Kunpeng I2C controller is only present on HiSilicon
> > > Kunpeng SoCs, and its driver relies on ACPI to probe for its presence.
> > > Hence add dependencies on ARCH_HISI and ACPI, to prevent asking the user
> > > about this driver when configuring a kernel without Hisilicon platform
> > > or ACPI firmware support.
> >
> > this is a public IP which doesn't specifically depend on ARCH_HISI. I'm
> > not sure all the platform this IP on has ARCH_HISI configured. The driver
> > will not be compiled by default config. This is not correct to have
> > this dependence.
> 
> Thanks for your answer!
> 
> I guess it's still fine to add a dependency on ACPI?

But why?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-13 12:26 [PATCH] i2c: I2C_HISI should depend on ARCH_HISI && ACPI Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-13 12:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-13 12:48   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-13 14:41     ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-13 14:44       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-13 15:19         ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-14  9:19 ` Yicong Yang
2021-04-14 18:06   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-14 18:18     ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-04-14 18:55       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-14 19:14         ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-14 19:21           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-15  8:50             ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-19 13:02               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-19 13:31                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-19 13:54                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-19 13:58                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-19 14:14                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-19 14:18                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-19 14:27                           ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-19 14:15                       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-19 14:39                         ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-15  8:18     ` Yicong Yang
2021-04-15  9:04       ` Yicong Yang
2021-04-15 10:36         ` Andy Shevchenko

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