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Message-id: <1525696.gQFOjPpKHL@amdc1976>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:40:12 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>,
	Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Make CROS_EC_PROTO a user selectable
 option


Hi,

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 09:15:06 AM Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The boolean CROS_EC_PROTO symbol is selected by MFD_CROS_EC but that can
> cause Kconfig circular dependencies so is better to change the select to

Could you please give a reference to the problem or error message
that you're getting (I was not following the previous discussion).

> a depends on. But in order to be able to change that, the CROS_EC_PROTO
> symbol has to be one that can be selected by the user.

Looking at the code behind the config option it seems that it is just
a helper library and should not be made user-visible.  Why can't
the issue be fixed the other way (make other config options select
CROS_EC_PROTO consistently)?

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/chrome/Kconfig | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/chrome/Kconfig
> index 3271cd1abe7c..a73b823d4967 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/Kconfig
> @@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ config CROS_EC_LPC
>            module will be called cros_ec_lpc.
>  
>  config CROS_EC_PROTO
> -        bool
> +        bool "ChromeOS EC communication protocol helpers"
>          help
> -          ChromeOS EC communication protocol helpers.
> +          Say Y here to enable support for the different communication
> +          protocols used to talk with the ChromeOS embedded controller.
>  
>  endif # CHROMEOS_PLATFORMS

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