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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:36:55 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com> cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/google: drop 'select EFI' to avoid recursive dependency On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > The GOOGLE_SMI Kconfig symbol depends on DMI and selects EFI. This > causes problems on other archs when introducing DMI support that > depends on EFI, as it results in a recursive dependency: > > arch/arm/Kconfig:1845:error: recursive dependency detected! > arch/arm/Kconfig:1845: symbol DMI depends on EFI > > Fix by changing the 'select EFI' to a 'depends on EFI'. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> > --- > drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig > index 2f21b0bfe653..29c8cdda82a1 100644 > --- a/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig > @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ menu "Google Firmware Drivers" > > config GOOGLE_SMI > tristate "SMI interface for Google platforms" > - depends on ACPI && DMI > - select EFI > + depends on ACPI && DMI && EFI > select EFI_VARS > help > Say Y here if you want to enable SMI callbacks for Google Adding Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com> to the cc since this is his code, but it looks good to me. $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list) I wonder why he's not listed as a recipient for patches from get_maintainer.pl since it's clearly obvious he wrote the entire file. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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