From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miao Wang Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:03:26 +0800 Subject: [PATCH RFC v4 5/7] ipmi: ls2k: Relax the dependency to its mfd driver MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20260731-ls2kbmc-mod-v4-5-d201502ba239@gmail.com> References: <20260731-ls2kbmc-mod-v4-0-d201502ba239@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260731-ls2kbmc-mod-v4-0-d201502ba239@gmail.com> To: Binbin Zhou , Chong Qiao , Lee Jones , Huacai Chen , Corey Minyard , Linus Walleij , Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Xi Ruoyao , WANG Xuerui , Yinbo Zhu , Jiaxun Yang , mfd@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, Miao Wang X-Mailer: b4 0.14.2 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=openpgp-sha256; l=1266; i=shankerwangmiao@gmail.com; s=20250715; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=DqOdU6W3FkZ9wJNJOs/NgLGl94jX8Hgep53VmIhV2nQ=; b=owEBbQKS/ZANAwAKAbAx48p7/tluAcsmYgBqa4PkC1n+JQCUPw/g4JCMJcxFmnJHWCouwbX2S InWjoi5/TSJAjMEAAEKAB0WIQREqPWPgPJBxluezBOwMePKe/7ZbgUCamuD5AAKCRCwMePKe/7Z bt0/D/40bGmWcIXSf8UM3FtduAC4s4VhDqlKqULHrJSJD+LFmzku0K7KbvFdVkVCeIeVH8AnDuO XNUpQ9tk5PhBibCI9wDdaxJeb7kJOs+VN8itxzMqKKTscUuQsnPLcpQ1Jkc2JFJnFvhK9/LAW1A mmlTzQQhVyxUgXz+XfhMDIwzBLp8aFumClQtpVX/dk1LWiDldwow4gQGah4fAF2cTFBYbz9PjvR T62q9Xo6ArCkgHTPyZkdCkD5GqntE1ztJSvP70+oPfzKm569j+x/TLC+laPyYKl4CKP4O2Q5e9i KvBssmrTgN72/evt2XuPliKLahJFa8TA7CIX1u8jroQ2O360ckQdJ8MHDGuZGeaojP5UVOK88oG tzUhB03csmq/jM7XinTWiE/NRsdoL0ioUvQm7HV8JmsLIVwXV6WOrEt1zAHO3vYde1W5z80zmgo E1+3CmOpChkQl6zrQ4g0S/Gy//YX9EoMMu9WeTc3LgH/dK4TNkBW7DN8aFBoaz+CmVq1HZyxABT B7Gw+Z5VQB5KkLXYJKhKnjb5z7ThLntvecJBeqNXu0+5armUxz+MuXCcFTwpL3q0g7nTVLHLBUM 4+gfZsc1VHEtYNKmhsYcjmcsr1vwoOwgtFcn1CWo7520TMK/pKoNuQ7unJhM3kPhqiyPDTjPUzu Zi8L8V1THuYGw9Q== X-Developer-Key: i=shankerwangmiao@gmail.com; a=openpgp; fpr=6FAEFF06B7D212A774C60BFDFA0D166D6632EF4A X-Endpoint-Received: by B4 Relay for shankerwangmiao@gmail.com/20250715 with auth_id=462 List-Id: B4 Relay Submissions There is no strong dependency between the IPMI driver and its mfd driver. Although the IPMI driver will not work without the mfd driver, it is not a hard dependency. The IPMI driver can actually be compiled without the mfd driver, and it will just fail to probe. When the mfd driver is loaded, the IPMI driver will probe successfully. Therefore, the dependency of the IPMI driver on its mfd driver should be relaxed to "imply" from "select". This will allow the mfd driver to be compiled as a module and the IPMI driver to be compiled as a part of the ipmi_si module. Fixes: d46651d4e3c0 ("ipmi: Add Loongson-2K BMC support") Signed-off-by: Miao Wang --- drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig index 669f7600019747bcd2b37563477cf336f19a0407..f456e3e89416932f0d21bb742153a503aeb24267 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ config IPMI_IPMB config IPMI_LS2K bool 'Loongson-2K IPMI interface' depends on LOONGARCH - select MFD_LS2K_BMC_CORE + imply MFD_LS2K_BMC_CORE help Provides a driver for Loongson-2K IPMI interfaces. -- 2.49.0