Re: Autoselecting SPI for MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT?

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>]

On Fri Aug 22 11:17:22 2014, Antti Palosaari wrote:
> Moikka!
>
> On 08/22/2014 06:00 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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>> Hi Antti -
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>> Commit e4462ffc160 ([media] Kconfig: sub-driver auto-select SPI bus)
>> enables CONFIG_SPI globally for a driver that won't even be enabled in
>> many cases.
>>
>> Is there a reason USB_MSI2500 doesn't select SPI instead of
>> MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT?
>
> Nothing but I decided to set it similarly as I2C, another more common
> bus. IIRC same was for I2C_MUX too.
>
> You could still disable media subdriver autoselect and then disable
> SPI and select all the media drivers (excluding MSSi2500) manually.
>
> I have feeling that media auto-select was added to select everything
> needed for media.

Ok, that makes sense. I suppose I'll still need to enable SPI just for 
this device and disable every other SPI device anyway. I'll live.

Thanks,

-Jeff

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