From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org,
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"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"Bartosz Golaszewski" <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
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"Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
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"Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
"Wim Van Sebroeck" <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
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"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Jason Cooper" <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
"Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
"Mark Brown" <broonie@kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/13] pwm: add support for sl28cpld PWM controller
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:13:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200810071328.GB4411@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e288ca6cfee819223395712e04159dd9@walle.cc>
On Fri, 07 Aug 2020, Michael Walle wrote:
> Hi Uwe, Hi Lee,
>
> Am 2020-08-06 10:40, schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:35:52AM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/Kconfig b/drivers/pwm/Kconfig
> > > index 7dbcf6973d33..a0d50d70c3b9 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pwm/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/pwm/Kconfig
> > > @@ -428,6 +428,16 @@ config PWM_SIFIVE
> > > To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
> > > will be called pwm-sifive.
> > >
> > > +config PWM_SL28CPLD
> > > + tristate "Kontron sl28cpld PWM support"
> > > + select MFD_SIMPLE_MFD_I2C
> >
> > Is it sensible to present this option to everyone? Maybe
> >
> > depends on SOME_SYMBOL_ONLY_TRUE_ON_SL28CPLD || COMPILE_TEST
>
> Because there is now no real MFD driver anymore, there is also
> no symbol for that. The closest would be ARCH_ARM64 but I don't
> think that is a good idea.
>
> Lee, what do you think about adding a symbol to the MFD, which
> selects MFD_SIMPLE_MFD_I2C but doesn't enable any C modules?
>
> I.e.
> config MFD_SL28CPLD
> tristate "Kontron sl28cpld"
> select MFD_SIMPLE_MFD_I2C
> help
> Say yes here to add support for the Kontron sl28cpld board
> management controller.
>
> Then all the other device driver could depend on the MFD_SL28CPLD
> symbol.
You want to add a virtual symbol to prevent having to present a real
one? How is that a reasonable solution?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 9:35 [PATCH v7 00/13] Add support for Kontron sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 01/13] mfd: add simple regmap based I2C driver Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 02/13] dt-bindings: mfd: Add bindings for sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 03/13] mfd: simple-mfd-i2c: add sl28cpld support Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 04/13] irqchip: add sl28cpld interrupt controller support Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 05/13] watchdog: add support for sl28cpld watchdog Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 06/13] pwm: add support for sl28cpld PWM controller Michael Walle
2020-08-06 8:40 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-08-07 7:28 ` Michael Walle
2020-08-07 7:45 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-08-07 7:55 ` Michael Walle
2020-08-07 10:24 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-08-10 7:13 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-08-10 7:31 ` Michael Walle
2020-08-13 7:09 ` Michael Walle
2020-08-13 8:21 ` Lee Jones
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 07/13] gpio: add support for the sl28cpld GPIO controller Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 08/13] hwmon: add support for the sl28cpld hardware monitoring controller Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 09/13] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 10/13] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: map GPIOs to input events Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 11/13] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable LED support Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 12/13] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable fan support Michael Walle
2020-08-03 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 13/13] arm64: defconfig: enable the sl28cpld board management controller Michael Walle
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