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From: k.kozlowski@samsung.com (Krzysztof Kozlowski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable CROS_EC_PROTO for ChromeOS EC mfd driver
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:57:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D2E569.3000800@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439881281-22054-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com>

On 18.08.2015 16:01, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The ChromeOS mfd driver (MFD_CROS_EC) select the CROS_EC_PROTO config
> symbol because the driver uses some communication helper functions in
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c but other drivers depends on
> CROS_EC_PROTO instead. Mixing select and depends can lead to circular
> Kconfig dependencies so the MFD_CROS_EC select should be changed to a
> depends on CROS_EC_PROTO instead.
> 
> But doing so will break git bisect-ability since MFD_CROS_EC will not
> be enabled anymore unless the default configs first explicitly enable
> the CROS_EC_PROTO dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

I saw the discussion about circular dependency but I wasn't following
it. Currently the CROS_EC_PROTO is not user-selectable. How can you
depend on it? How can be enabled on different configs (customized by user)?

Maybe the questions are answered by code in different patches?

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> index 1ff2bfa2e183..537391ea37ac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y
>  CONFIG_PL330_DMA=y
>  CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS=y
>  CONFIG_CROS_EC_CHARDEV=y
> +CONFIG_CROS_EC_PROTO=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MAX77686=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MAX77802=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_S2MPS11=y
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18  7:01 [PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable CROS_EC_PROTO for ChromeOS EC mfd driver Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-08-18  7:57 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2015-08-18  8:05   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-08-18  8:09     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-08-18  8:12       ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-08-19 19:28 ` Javier Martinez Canillas

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