Re: [PATCH] HID: nvidia-shield: Select POWER_SUPPLY Kconfig option

[Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, 04 Oct, 2023 20:49:07 +0200 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2023, Rahul Rameshbabu wrote:
>
>> >> Battery information reported by the driver depends on the power supply 
>> >> subsystem. Select the required subsystem when the HID_NVIDIA_SHIELD 
>> >> Kconfig option is enabled.
>> >> 
>> >> Fixes: 3ab196f88237 ("HID: nvidia-shield: Add battery support for Thunderstrike")
>> >> Signed-off-by: Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  drivers/hid/Kconfig | 1 +
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >> 
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/hid/Kconfig b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>> >> index e11c1c803676..dc227f477601 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>> >> +++ b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>> >> @@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ config HID_NVIDIA_SHIELD
>> >>  	tristate "NVIDIA SHIELD devices"
>> >>  	depends on USB_HID
>> >>  	depends on BT_HIDP
>> >> +	select POWER_SUPPLY
>> >
>> > Is there a reason not to do it the standard way using 'depends on', and 
>> > not vice versa?
>> 
>> I originally used 'depends on' for POWER_SUPPLY. I took a look at
>> drivers/hid/Kconfig and saw that all modules that depended on
>> POWER_SUPPLY in the hid subsystem used 'select' instead. I figured I
>> should follow the trend.
>
> You are right.
>
> I still don't like the fact that we are forcefully selecting POWER_SUPPLY 
> like this, but that's a 6.7 material.

I agree. This bothered me as well, so I am glad you called it out. There
were some items I wanted to look at for 6.7. Do you want me to add this
to some other patches I am hoping to send out or did you want to take
care of this?

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Thanks,

Rahul Rameshbabu