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From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon w83627hf: add mfd support.
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:01:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090918080151.GA7905@sortiz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252585810-5336-2-git-send-email-giometti@linux.it>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:42:41AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hello Samuel,
> 
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:34:45 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:34:50PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > But then again I don't know if there is already a policy regarding this
> > > for MFD drivers. Samuel?
> >
> > If your subdevice driver is calling some of the MFD core routines, or if
> > there's a platform dependency, then your subdevice driver (w83627hf in that
> > case) Kconfig should depend on MFD_W83627HF.
> 
> Isn't it allowed to do it the other way around, using select? Due to
> the history of the w83627hf driver, I fear that users will just see the
> hwmon driver they were using disappear, and they will not necessarily
> think of checking in MFD. So I expect a high number of support requests
> about this.
Makes sense. In that case, it'd be perfectly fine to select the MFD core from
the hwmon Kconfig entry, yes.

Cheers,
Samuel.


> -- 
> Jean Delvare

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-10 12:30 [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon w83627hf: add mfd support Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-10 12:56 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-11  7:42 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-11 10:58 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-09-11 15:07 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-15 11:38 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-09-17 13:34 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-17 13:51 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-17 13:57 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-17 14:03 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-17 14:07 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-17 14:34 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-09-18  7:42 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-18  8:01 ` Samuel Ortiz [this message]
2009-09-18 11:02 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-18 12:09 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-18 14:42 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-09-18 14:49 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-18 16:16 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-20 23:48 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-09-22  8:22 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-22  8:26 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-09-22  8:33 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2009-10-01 13:23 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-01 13:53 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-11-02 13:23 ` Jean Delvare
2009-11-03  8:17 ` Rodolfo Giometti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-10 12:18 Rodolfo Giometti
2010-02-27 10:58 ` Jean Delvare
2011-09-22  9:11 ` Rodolfo Giometti

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