Re: [PATCH] regmap: Kconfig: Select SPMI when REGMAP_SPMI is selected

pramod gurav
2014-07-16T14:42:08Z

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:00:54PM +0300, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 14:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> > No, this isn't an either/or thing - the dependency is absolutely
>> > mandatory if the device needs SPMI. The defconfigs are a separate
>> > thing, they just exist to give people a starting point for configuring
>> > their kernel so if the device using SPMI is important for relevant
>> > systems the defconfig needs to be set up to enable it but that's
>> > separate to the dependency since there's no need for people to ever even
>> > look at defconfigs.
>
>> Then config REGMAP_SPMI should depend on SPMI, right?
>
> No, REGMAP_SPMI is not something that can be enabled directly - it is
> selected by its users which should be ensuring that SPMI is enabled as
> it is difficult to see a use case for REGMAP_SPMI which does not do
> this.
>
> A dependency from a selected symbol will have no effect.

Thanks Mark. So essentially in this case PMIC driver should 'select SPMI'.
Right?

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Thanks and Regards
Pramod