From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
Jens Frederich <jfrederich@gmail.com>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@gmail.com>,
Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: depend on instead of select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE and ACPI_VIDEO
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:04:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414551853.7417.1.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544FFC91.9040104@infradead.org>
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 13:29 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/27/14 06:13, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > I also think the 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE ||
> > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=n' pattern is quite... interesting (i.e. sounds
> > like a hack to me =).
>
> It does exactly what is needed and it is used in many places in kernel
> Kconfig files.
Is there any reason you can't do:
depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE != m
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-17 21:13 [PATCH] drivers: depend on instead of select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE and ACPI_VIDEO Jani Nikula
2014-10-21 20:50 ` Darren Hart
2014-10-22 8:02 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-23 8:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-10-23 11:38 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-27 11:59 ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-27 13:13 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-10-28 20:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-10-29 3:04 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2014-10-29 7:54 ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-29 8:27 ` Michael Ellerman
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