From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baruch Siach Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: xtensa: depend on HAVE_XTENSA_GPIO32 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 15:33:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20140102133333.GF6589@tarshish> References: <70c25715a89328b38e636f5f1f84ca34e4590d58.1387177140.git.baruch@tkos.co.il> <20140102121842.GB6589@tarshish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from guitar.tcltek.co.il ([192.115.133.116]:44347 "EHLO mx.tkos.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbaABNdh (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jan 2014 08:33:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Walleij Cc: Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org Hi Linus, On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 02:21:12PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 01:07:24PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: > >> > >> > Prevent build failure when the selected variant does not support GPIO32. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach > >> (...) > >> > +config HAVE_XTENSA_GPIO32 > >> > + bool > >> > + > >> > config GPIO_XTENSA > >> > bool "Xtensa GPIO32 support" > >> > depends on XTENSA > >> > + depends on HAVE_XTENSA_GPIO32 > >> > >> This is just a tautology, you don't need a helper bool > >> for this. > >> > >> Instead just select GPIO_XTENSA from your affected > >> platforms. > > > > But then you force this driver on all users. Why not leave the option to > > disable this driver when the user needs direct access to this hardware, or > > just wants to remove unused code? > > Hmm you're right. But if the build fails on !XTENSA, can you not > put a > > depends on XTENSA_VARIANT_FSF || XTENSA_VARIANT_DC232B || XTENSA_VARIANT_DC233C > > Into drivers/gpio/Kconfig? > > It's a simple oneliner... IMO, having a 'select HAVE_XTENSA_GPIO32' in arch/xtensa/Kconfig would makes it clear that this is something to consider when adding another Xtensa variant. Also, this dependency line might (hopefully will) become quite long. But if you object I'll change that. > Usually the only reason not to do this would be to get a wider compile > coverage but the patch says it only compiles on these platforms > anyway :-P baruch -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -