Re: [PATCH 2/3] spi-nor: intel-spi: Explicitly mark the driver as dangerous in Kconfig

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 10:06:31PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 21:32:46 +0100
> Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mika,
> > 
> > Le 04/01/2018 à 10:07, Mika Westerberg a écrit :
> > > The driver is not meant for normal users at all but instead such users
> > > who really know what they are doing and are able to build their own
> > > kernel to enable it. Mark both driver Kconfig entries as dangerous to
> > > make sure the driver is not accidentally enabled without understanding
> > > possible issues in doing so.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> > > index 89da88e59121..f480b227a6b8 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> > > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ config SPI_INTEL_SPI
> > >  	tristate
> > >  
> > >  config SPI_INTEL_SPI_PCI
> > > -	tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash PCI driver"
> > > +	tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash PCI driver (DANGEROUS)"  
> > 
> > I guess it might be even better and safer to add "default n" too, don't
> > you agree? Adding only the "DANGEROUS" word would not prevent build
> > scripts to select this driver when creating a kernel config from scratch.
> 
> How about adding
> 
> 	depends on EXPERT
> 
> ?

It used to be like that but then it was pointed out by Arnd Bergman that
EXPERT is not about hiding drivers and got removed by b8cc0012917d
("spi-nor: intel-spi: Remove EXPERT dependency").