Re: [PATCH] regulator: kconfig: make max8973 driver to depend on GPIOLIB

[Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>]

On Wednesday 08 April 2015 10:13 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:07:07PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>> MAX8973 regulator driver uses the GPIO APIs for accessing the
>> control signal connected to its pin from host processor.
>>
>> Make this driver depends on GPIOLIB.
> The GPIO usage in the driver appears to be optional, it handles the GPIO
> not being controllable.  This suggests to me that the gpiolib dependency
> shouldn't be required and that it would be better to fix this by
> ensuring that all the gpiolib functions being used have appropriate
> stubs.  Which ones are causing problems?
>

Thanks for review.

Sometime ago, I got the comiplation error on random config for one of 
architecture which was not having GPIO architecture. The compilation 
error was reported on tps62360-regulator.c which is also using similar 
i2c calls.

So to avoid similar issue, I make this depends on GPIOLIB.

However, I looked gpio.h and it has all required APIs as static inline 
if GPIOLIB is not there so atleast compilation issue will not be there.

Now going through code, I think if gpios are not there then also it 
should work.
Not tested this on my board as I can not boot without gpio.

I think we can drop this patch.

Thanks,
Laxman