Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 12/24] HID: Kconfig: split HID support and hid-core compilation

Greg KH
2022-07-28T14:14:41Z

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 05:36:13PM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Currently, we step into drivers/hid/ based on the value of
> CONFIG_HID.
>
> However, that value is a tristate, meaning that it can be a module.
>
> As per the documentation, if we jump into the subdirectory by
> following an obj-m, we can not compile anything inside that
> subdirectory in vmlinux. It is considered as a bug.
>
> To make things more friendly to HID-BPF, split HID (the HID core
> parameter) from HID_SUPPORT (do we want any kind of HID support in the
> system?), and make this new config a boolean.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
>
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Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>