From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miao Wang Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:55:53 +0800 Subject: [PATCH RFC v5 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: <20260804-ls2kbmc-mod-v5-5-e6bc5cdd9a93@gmail.com> References: <20260804-ls2kbmc-mod-v5-0-e6bc5cdd9a93@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260804-ls2kbmc-mod-v5-0-e6bc5cdd9a93@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=1366; i=shankerwangmiao@gmail.com; s=20250715; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=gWOO98z6lpPREnTgNizoggde9a0/OsZs516s8lw5YNI=; b=owEBbQKS/ZANAwAKAbAx48p7/tluAcsmYgBqcMhKLjA7Pw71S5bqO8V/3cOJ+RNzMUIsZ1+R4 faly8Er4oCJAjMEAAEKAB0WIQREqPWPgPJBxluezBOwMePKe/7ZbgUCanDISgAKCRCwMePKe/7Z bjU3D/9zO9GKSVabQGWvriUD7pAikHYnLgNvakZ0ZsA22rBP+B9nuItLx/F0gZuM4/GtWsRbObj dEdZgNjAcK8uJeyOIu69C71A/iVcRDGuzPpB7pICy/gSYn5I2ZA/+9McNDnsTE7femZikHHjt1X wJmg0EdzCSWz2MwVv+9KhwCxSbToMv+6X6Ae3I1B9WkU8gqwSsi2z5y10LsKCcpnzYtmvx1IPK9 Vqm7ofvXaGOC3FXZAGQN2B73VAoa2905VJ/FNntOQy6WVx1j/Lp7Rlz5BImSJpqbDYix4lJLwcp KVUBkRIYDFPExT72Gf1MeqOrqXv46xwnjwN13Dk/APApNqHLrlRGbwSjsRFcW3DVSzOh21c6LFC mVrQE9D6WhZqQjathlGvtwuiXsQO4tqoiYVGwkMehYelsgD444oCJ9hOBI0Z6GOWvQhnJIYgbqI FhVsG/RVh7EdDk+StY74HJIi+j/0y/Yl8cIbrjtM8pP0AZfiEND8+9ge/LKvOMJddJsPQ/wjciC cK3UWyUtGMFMVdfXXZUN7Hdf8c9mYmxXuD9lJckVSPxZxlFlFF4SM2xWom0kM236KcZAF0uBg/l m+ZYoyvIf2L5ZWDDbbo+UnLt5c1sCTrLBcZPKX5qYdhyUu5/4ZcVhKlH3IEIOJj0FX4pvzyvhbD GJIutlcIHZ7hh5w== 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. The adjustment to Kconfig for the mfd driver will be introduced in the later patch in this series. 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