Re: [PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: ralink: fix SERIAL_8250_RT288X dependency

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:39:32AM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> With every Ralink SoC that we add, we would need to extend the dependency. In
> order to make life easier we make the symbol depend on MIPS & RALINK and then
> select it from within arch/mips/ralink/.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
> ---
> 
> These 2 patches in this series should be merged via the mips tree. Patch 1/2
> requires an Ack from the tty maintainer.
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
> index 80fe91e..24ea3c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
> @@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ config SERIAL_8250_EM
>  	  If unsure, say N.
>  
>  config SERIAL_8250_RT288X
> -	bool "Ralink RT288x/RT305x/RT3662/RT3883 serial port support"
> -	depends on SERIAL_8250 && (SOC_RT288X || SOC_RT305X || SOC_RT3883)
> +	bool
> +	depends on SERIAL_8250 && MIPS && RALINK


This patch doesn't create a select anywhere, so how can a user know what
to do here?

greg k-h