linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable CROS_EC

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Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:57:29 +0900
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>,
	Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable CROS_EC_PROTO for ChromeOS
 EC mfd driver

On 18.08.2015 16:01, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The ChromeOS mfd driver (MFD_CROS_EC) select the CROS_EC_PROTO config
> symbol because the driver uses some communication helper functions in
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c but other drivers depends on
> CROS_EC_PROTO instead. Mixing select and depends can lead to circular
> Kconfig dependencies so the MFD_CROS_EC select should be changed to a
> depends on CROS_EC_PROTO instead.
> 
> But doing so will break git bisect-ability since MFD_CROS_EC will not
> be enabled anymore unless the default configs first explicitly enable
> the CROS_EC_PROTO dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

I saw the discussion about circular dependency but I wasn't following
it. Currently the CROS_EC_PROTO is not user-selectable. How can you
depend on it? How can be enabled on different configs (customized by user)?

Maybe the questions are answered by code in different patches?

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> index 1ff2bfa2e183..537391ea37ac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y
>  CONFIG_PL330_DMA=y
>  CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS=y
>  CONFIG_CROS_EC_CHARDEV=y
> +CONFIG_CROS_EC_PROTO=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MAX77686=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MAX77802=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_S2MPS11=y
> 

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