linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 -next] spi: fix spi-sprd-adi build errors when SPI_SPRD

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:31:03 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -next] spi: fix spi-sprd-adi build errors when
 SPI_SPRD_ADI=y and HWSPINLOCK=m

On 09/25/17 12:22, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 09:20:31PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
>> The issue is builtin drivers that depend on a modular API.  The clean way
>> is to separate API and implementation, so the API can be builtin, and the
>> implementation can be modular.
>> Hence the API should provide stubs that call into function pointers, to be
>> registered by the module providing the implementation.
> 
> In this case the problem is even more basic in that the driver does
> actually depend on having hwspinlocks for any production use.
> 

so just add:
	depends on HWSPINLOCK

Is that satisfactory to you?

-- 
~Randy