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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>,
	Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	ML nouveau <nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nouveau: fix dependencies for DEVICE_PRIVATE
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 17:05:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1vCx=XibDdoDqG9obpCFx0JCibAvcKFh6E7_NR_hJ03A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200508150041.GI19158@mellanox.com>

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 5:00 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE cannot be selected in configurations
> > without ZONE_DEVICE:
>
> It is kind of unfortunate to lift dependencies from DEVICE_PRIVATE
> into the users, is this really how kconfig is supposed to work or is
> something else wrong here?

Usually the problem is trying to use 'select' for something that can
be done with 'depends on'. I have actually no idea what
CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE does, as it lacks a help text
and is a rather generic term.

Would it be possible to decouple DEVICE_PRIVATE from ZONE_DEVICE?
It sounds like the first is related to the device model, while
the second is for memory management, so maybe the dependency
is not necessary.

       Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08 14:40 [PATCH 1/2] HMM: test: fix CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE dependencies Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] nouveau: fix dependencies for DEVICE_PRIVATE Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-08 15:00   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 15:05     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-05-08 19:04       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 20:39         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-08 18:05   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-05-11 13:52   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] HMM: test: fix CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE dependencies Ralph Campbell
2020-05-08 18:05 ` Randy Dunlap

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