From: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@broadcom.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
Naresh Kumar PBS <nareshkumar.pbs@broadcom.com>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@broadcom.com>,
Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>,
Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 1/5] RDMA/bnxt_re: Depend on bnxt ethernet driver and not blindly select it
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 23:20:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANjDDBhiXdO3ve70RA55svoptWXGiL7thwhr5k7L2CAd1n1P=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210401065715.565226-2-leon@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:27 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>
> The "select" kconfig keyword provides reverse dependency, however it
> doesn't check that selected symbol meets its own dependencies. Usually
> "select" is used for non-visible symbols, so instead of trying to keep
> dependencies in sync with BNXT ethernet driver, simply "depends on" it,
> like Kconfig documentation suggest.
>
> * CONFIG_PCI is already required by BNXT
> * CONFIG_NETDEVICES and CONFIG_ETHERNET are needed to chose BNXT
>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/Kconfig | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/Kconfig b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/Kconfig
> index 0feac5132ce1..6a17f5cdb020 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/Kconfig
> @@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
> config INFINIBAND_BNXT_RE
> tristate "Broadcom Netxtreme HCA support"
> depends on 64BIT
> - depends on ETHERNET && NETDEVICES && PCI && INET && DCB
> - select NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM
> - select BNXT
> + depends on INET && DCB && BNXT
> help
> This driver supports Broadcom NetXtreme-E 10/25/40/50 gigabit
> RoCE HCAs. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here:
> --
> 2.30.2
>
Acked-By: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@broadcom.com>
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-Regards
Devesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-01 6:57 [PATCH rdma-next v2 0/5] Get rid of custom made module dependency Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-01 6:57 ` [PATCH rdma-next v2 1/5] RDMA/bnxt_re: Depend on bnxt ethernet driver and not blindly select it Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-21 17:50 ` Devesh Sharma [this message]
2021-04-01 6:57 ` [PATCH rdma-next v2 2/5] RDMA/bnxt_re: Create direct symbolic link between bnxt modules Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-21 17:51 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-01 6:57 ` [PATCH rdma-next v2 3/5] RDMA/bnxt_re: Get rid of custom module reference counting Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-21 17:52 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-01 6:57 ` [PATCH rdma-next v2 4/5] net/bnxt: Remove useless check of non-existent ULP id Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-01 6:57 ` [PATCH rdma-next v2 5/5] net/bnxt: Use direct API instead of useless indirection Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-03 10:22 ` [PATCH rdma-next v2 0/5] Get rid of custom made module dependency Devesh Sharma
2021-04-03 11:42 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-08 11:36 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-08 11:44 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-08 11:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-08 12:03 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-08 15:21 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-08 15:12 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-12 7:40 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-14 13:45 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-17 8:14 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-17 18:39 ` Devesh Sharma
2021-04-18 4:18 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-19 17:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-19 19:04 ` Devesh Sharma
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