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

Andy Shevchenko
2021-04-14T18:18:41Z

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 08:06:18PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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?

But why?

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Andy Shevchenko