linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: do not select SPI bus on sub-driver auto-select

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Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:04:53 -0400
From:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To:	Antti Palosaari <crope@....fi>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: do not select SPI bus on sub-driver auto-select

On Fri Aug 22 13:02:09 2014, Antti Palosaari wrote:
> We should not select SPI bus when sub-driver auto-select is
> selected. That option is meant for auto-selecting all possible
> ancillary drivers used for selected board driver. Ancillary
> drivers should define needed dependencies itself.
>
> I2C and I2C_MUX are still selected here for a reason described on
> commit 347f7a3763601d7b466898d1f10080b7083ac4a3
>
> Reverts commit e4462ffc1602d9df21c00a0381dca9080474e27a
>
> Reported-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@....fi>
> ---
>  drivers/media/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/Kconfig b/drivers/media/Kconfig
> index f60bad4..3c89fcb 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/media/Kconfig
> @@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ config MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT
>  	depends on HAS_IOMEM
>  	select I2C
>  	select I2C_MUX
> -	select SPI
>  	default y
>  	help
>  	  By default, a media driver auto-selects all possible ancillary

FWIW, in the patch I used locally, I also did a 'select SPI' in the 
MSI2500 driver since it wouldn't otherwise be obvious that a USB device 
depends on SPI.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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