From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.30]:2566 "EHLO smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751548AbaBIRpg (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:45:36 -0500 Message-ID: <52F7BE9D.7090007@xs4all.nl> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:45:01 +0100 From: Hans Verkuil MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Bolle CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] si4713: Remove "select SI4713" References: <1391957777.25424.15.camel@x220> <52F79C37.5030000@xs4all.nl> <1391959624.25424.29.camel@x220> <52F7B522.1000205@xs4all.nl> <1391967449.5315.7.camel@x220> In-Reply-To: <1391967449.5315.7.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/09/2014 06:37 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 18:04 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> The i2c module is loaded by v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board(). > > I see. Thanks. > > But now I wonder: is I2C_SI4713 useful on itself? Would anyone use > si4713.ko without using either radio-usb-si4713.ko or > radio-platform-si4713.ko? Because it seems that if what people actually > use is radio-usb-si4713.ko or radio-platform-si4713.ko than I2C_SI4713 > could be made a 'select only' Kconfig symbol (that won't show up in > menuconfig), couldn't it? It's possible to create an out-of-tree driver that uses the i2c si4713 driver. So yes, it should be possible to just select the i2c driver without any of the others. Regards, Hans