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From: nsekhar@ti•com (Sekhar Nori)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:35:34 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5138666E.6090201@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130307060117.GA31687@kroah.com>

On 3/7/2013 11:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:20:45PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:29:42PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
>>>> +menu "Qualcomm MSM SSBI bus support"
>>>> +	depends on ARCH_MSM
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> In the sense that ARCH_MSM are the only devices that ever were, or ever
>> will be made with this device.  It doesn't strictly depend on it, but do
>> we want to clutter the config for everything else.
> 
> It's not "clutter".  You want me to build this on other platforms, to
> catch api and other types of build breakages.  This is the way for
> almost all Linux drivers.

Not having a depends on helps build coverage, but I have seen
objections to showing up irrelevant configurations to users (of x86 for
example). See one here from Linus for OMAP_OCP2SCP

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1210.0/00785.html

If this case is different, I am not sure why.

Thanks,
Sekhar

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-07 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07  0:29 [PATCH 0/6] Qualcomm SSBI bus driver David Brown
2013-03-07  0:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver David Brown
2013-03-07  1:30   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07  5:20     ` David Brown
2013-03-07  6:01       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07 10:05         ` Sekhar Nori [this message]
2013-03-07 18:45           ` David Brown
2013-03-07 18:50         ` David Brown
2013-03-07 23:29           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12  6:51     ` David Brown
2013-03-12 13:27       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07  0:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] SSBI: Convert SSBI to device tree David Brown
2013-03-07  0:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] ssbi: Fix exit mismatch in remove function David Brown
2013-03-07  1:30   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07  5:21     ` David Brown
2013-03-07  0:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] ssbi: Use regular init level David Brown
2013-03-07  0:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARM: msm: enable SSBI driver in defconfig David Brown
2013-03-07  0:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] RFC: SSBI: Simple pm8058 test driver David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/11] Qualcomm SSBI bus driver David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 01/11] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 02/11] fix: Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 03/11] ssbi: Fix exit mismatch in remove function David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 04/11] ssbi: Allow compilation as a module David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 05/11] SSBI: Convert SSBI to device tree David Brown
2013-03-12 20:46     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 06/11] ssbi: Comment the use of udelay() David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 07/11] ssbi: Use regular init level David Brown
2013-03-12 20:26     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 08/11] ssbi: Remove extraneous logging David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 09/11] SSBI: Remove MSM_ prefix from SSBI drivers David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 10/11] MAINTAINERS: add ssbi David Brown
2013-03-25 17:40   ` [PATCH v2 0/11] Qualcomm SSBI bus driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] RFC: SSBI: Simple pm8058 test driver David Brown

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