linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 4/8] i2c: thunderx: Add SMBUS alert support

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Message-ID: <20160823212859.GC28936@hardcore>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:28:59 +0200
From:   Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
        <Steven.Hill@...iumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 4/8] i2c: thunderx: Add SMBUS alert support

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:57:25PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:51:30PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > Add SMBUS alert interrupt support. For now only device tree is
> > supported for specifying the alert. In case of ACPI an error
> > is returned.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@...ium.com>
> 
> What about 'select I2C_SMBUS' in Kconfig and skip all the ifdeffery?
> 

Wouldn't that prevent a distribution that has I2C_HELPER_AUTO set
from enabling the ThunderX i2c driver at all?

--Jan