From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] si4713: Remove "select SI4713"
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:45:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F7BE9D.7090007@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391967449.5315.7.camel@x220>
On 02/09/2014 06:37 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 18:04 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> The i2c module is loaded by v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board().
>
> I see. Thanks.
>
> But now I wonder: is I2C_SI4713 useful on itself? Would anyone use
> si4713.ko without using either radio-usb-si4713.ko or
> radio-platform-si4713.ko? Because it seems that if what people actually
> use is radio-usb-si4713.ko or radio-platform-si4713.ko than I2C_SI4713
> could be made a 'select only' Kconfig symbol (that won't show up in
> menuconfig), couldn't it?
It's possible to create an out-of-tree driver that uses the i2c si4713
driver. So yes, it should be possible to just select the i2c driver without
any of the others.
Regards,
Hans
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-09 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-09 14:56 [PATCH] [media] si4713: Remove "select SI4713" Paul Bolle
2014-02-09 15:18 ` Hans Verkuil
2014-02-09 15:27 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-09 17:04 ` Hans Verkuil
2014-02-09 17:37 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-09 17:45 ` Hans Verkuil [this message]
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