linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: never 'select DMI' from a driver

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Message-ID: <CALCETrXCvX_btgePvpW7=BU+u3qg+rkZEfM5pbREcF-VJ-2-ow@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:13:54 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: never 'select DMI' from a driver

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 07:46:58AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> > CONFIG_DMI is a user-selectable Kconfig symbol that some drivers
>> > depend on. As part of a recent patch, other drivers started
>> > adding a 'select' for the same symbol, which now causes
>> > a recursive dependency:
>>
>> Darren, it may make sense for you to fold the DELL_LAPTOP change in.
>
> Andy, I didn't quite follow you. Are you referring to this patch from Arnd, or
> from the dell-smbios series from Michał?
>
> I'm planning on merging both (Michał's is pending a v5).
>

I meant to fold the "select DMI" -> "depends on DMI" for DELL_WMI into my patch.

--Andy

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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC