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Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:34:12 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, 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 08/22/14 10:04, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> 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.

It already has depends on SPI.  That should be enough.

-- 
~Randy
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