linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi, dell-laptop: hide dell-smbios

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Message-ID: <20170105085939.GC31083@pali>
Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 09:59:39 +0100
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi, dell-laptop: hide dell-smbios

On Wednesday 04 January 2017 13:59:17 Jean Delvare wrote:
> Dell-smbios is a helper module, it serves no purpose on its own, so
> do not present it as an option to the user. Instead, select it
> automatically whenever a driver which needs it is selected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Cc: Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>
> Cc: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
>  * Select DCDBAS instead of depending on it. This is more
>    user-friendly and avoids the confusing transitive dependencies
>    which Pali didn't like.

Hi! I see that in previous email you CCed Yann and linux-kbuild, but I
do not see any response in my mailbox. Have you got some answer?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com