Re: [PATCH] i2c: I2C_HISI should depend on ARCH_HISI && ACPI

Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-14T18:06:37Z

Hi Yicong,

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:24 AM Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> On 2021/4/13 20:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The HiSilicon Kunpeng I2C controller is only present on HiSilicon
> > Kunpeng SoCs, and its driver relies on ACPI to probe for its presence.
> > Hence add dependencies on ARCH_HISI and ACPI, to prevent asking the user
> > about this driver when configuring a kernel without Hisilicon platform
> > or ACPI firmware support.
>
> this is a public IP which doesn't specifically depend on ARCH_HISI. I'm
> not sure all the platform this IP on has ARCH_HISI configured. The driver
> will not be compiled by default config. This is not correct to have
> this dependence.

Thanks for your answer!

I guess it's still fine to add a dependency on ACPI?

Thanks again!

> > Fixes: d62fbdb99a85730a ("i2c: add support for HiSilicon I2C controller")
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > ---
> > drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
> > index b5b4e0d0ff4dd0bc..3ead6d9e130b2ebc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
> > @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ config I2C_HIGHLANDER
> >
> > config I2C_HISI
> > tristate "HiSilicon I2C controller"
> > - depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
> > + depends on (ARM64 && ARCH_HISI && ACPI) || COMPILE_TEST
> > help
> > Say Y here if you want to have Hisilicon I2C controller support
> > available on the Kunpeng Server.
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Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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