From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>,
sparmaintainer@unisys.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:54:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180115145422.GA4611@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21c1422d-9941-6c1b-6ade-f66ac14fcc81@infradead.org>
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 09:10:54PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>
> Drivers should not 'select' a subsystem. Instead they should depend
> on it. If the subsystem is disabled, the user probably did that for
> a purpose and one driver shouldn't be changing that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
> Cc: sparmaintainer@unisys.com (Unisys internal)
> Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- lnx-415-rc8.orig/drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig
> +++ lnx-415-rc8/drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig
> @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
> menuconfig UNISYSSPAR
> bool "Unisys SPAR driver support"
> depends on X86_64 && !UML
> - select PCI
> - select ACPI
> + depends on PCI && ACPI
> ---help---
> Support for the Unisys SPAR drivers
>
Does not apply to my tree at all :(
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2018-01-15 5:10 [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems Randy Dunlap
2018-01-15 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-01-15 18:51 ` Randy Dunlap
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