linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: USB_OTG does not depend on PM

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:00:18 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Cc:	Peter Chen <Peter.Chen@...escale.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: USB_OTG does not depend on PM

On Tuesday 17 November 2015 15:38:33 Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:
> > USB_OTG initially depended on USB_SUSPEND, which was later turned into
> > PM_RUNTIME and finally into PM. I don't know at what point the dependency
> > became unnecessary but it appears to work fine without CONFIG_PM now.
> >
> > However, we get lots of warnings in randconfig kernels like:
> >
> > warning: (USB_OTG_FSM && FSL_USB2_OTG && USB_MV_OTG) selects USB_OTG which has unmet direct dependencies (USB_SUPPORT && USB && PM)
> >
> > whenever CONFIG_PM is disabled and something else selects USB_OTG.
> > Let's just drop the dependency to avoid the warnings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > ---
> > I keep seeing this one in my ARM randconfig test
> 
> and how did you test this ? Did you make sure you're not breaking HNP ?
> For HNP to happen we depend on a bus_suspend and bus_suspend is only
> available on CONFIG_PM, unless that has changed.
> 
> Seems like you've only compile tested this patch, is that correct ?

Yes, I compile-tested only and inspected the code briefly without finding
anything that contradicted this. It seems I missed the important part
as you say, so we should instead add 'depends on PM' for the other
symbols.

	Arnd
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