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* [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems
@ 2018-01-15  5:10 Randy Dunlap
  2018-01-15 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2018-01-15  5:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: David Kershner, sparmaintainer, LKML

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
 

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* Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems
  2018-01-15  5:10 [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems Randy Dunlap
@ 2018-01-15 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  2018-01-15 18:51   ` Randy Dunlap
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2018-01-15 14:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Randy Dunlap
  Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, David Kershner, sparmaintainer, LKML

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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* Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems
  2018-01-15 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
@ 2018-01-15 18:51   ` Randy Dunlap
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2018-01-15 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, David Kershner, sparmaintainer, LKML

On 01/15/18 06:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :(

Bad Randy.  Patch is not needed... which is good.


-- 
~Randy

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