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From: German Rivera <German.Rivera@freescale.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<arnd@arndb.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>, <Kim.Phillips@freescale.com>,
	<scottwood@freescale.com>, <bhamciu1@freescale.com>,
	<R89243@freescale.com>, <Geoff.Thorpe@freescale.com>,
	<bhupesh.sharma@freescale.com>, <nir.erez@freescale.com>,
	<richard.schmitt@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v3] drivers/bus: Freescale Management Complex (fsl-mc) bus driver
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:01:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5462BF8D.2090805@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545B7C9A.8000309@suse.de>

On 11/06/2014 07:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
[cut]
>> +++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/Kconfig
>> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
>> +#
>> +# Freescale Management Complex (MC) bus drivers
>> +#
>> +# Copyright (C) 2014 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
>> +#
>> +# This file is released under the GPLv2
>> +#
>> +
>> +config FSL_MC_BUS
>> +	tristate "Freescale Management Complex (MC) bus driver"
>> +	help
>> +	  Driver to enable the bus infrastructure for the Freescale
>> +          QorIQ Management Complex.
>
> Isn't this missing some scope limitations? Should we really have the
> driver enabled on x86 for example?
>
I will add depends on OF && ARM64

> I would also make this slightly more verbose. People don't necessarily
> know what the QorIQ Management Complex is. Give people some idea what
> they're dealing with and preferably tell them hints that guide them from
> "SoC name" to "should I enable this option?".
>
> Also, usually the help text gives some guidance on what to do with the
> option if you're not sure. In this case, I would say advise the user to
> say N.
>
Will do.

>
> Alex
>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-04 13:23 [PATCH 0/3 v3] drivers/bus: Freescale Management Complex bus driver patch series J. German Rivera
2014-10-04 13:23 ` [PATCH 1/3 v3] drivers/bus: Added Freescale Management Complex APIs J. German Rivera
2014-11-06 13:49   ` Alexander Graf
2014-11-12  0:49     ` German Rivera
2014-10-04 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/3 v3] drivers/bus: Freescale Management Complex (fsl-mc) bus driver J. German Rivera
2014-11-06 13:50   ` Alexander Graf
2014-11-12  2:01     ` German Rivera [this message]
2014-10-04 13:23 ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] drivers/bus: Device driver for FSL-MC DPRC devices J. German Rivera
2014-10-05 14:53   ` Timur Tabi
2014-10-06 14:48     ` German Rivera
2014-11-10  4:37       ` Timur Tabi
2014-11-06 13:51   ` Alexander Graf
2014-11-13 17:37     ` German Rivera

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