linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add missing "source" line for firmware subdirectory in drivers/Kconfig

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:09:29 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add missing "source" line for firmware subdirectory in
 drivers/Kconfig

On 11/27/2017 11:12 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> I have a little bit of a hard time to find the right addressee for
> this patch because there is no maintainer entry for drivers/firmware.
> Can you apply the following through your tree?
> 
> Add missing entry for firmware subdirectory in drivers/Kconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>]

Hi,
Why do you need this patch?  You should explain that in the (missing)
patch description.

I suppose that it could be done like this, but currently any $ARCH that
wants to use drivers/firmware/Kconfig does so in the arch/$ARCH/Kconfig file:

arch> grep firmware/Kconfig */Kconfig
arm/Kconfig:source "arch/arm/firmware/Kconfig"
arm/Kconfig:source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
arm64/Kconfig:source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
blackfin/Kconfig:source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
ia64/Kconfig:source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
mips/Kconfig:source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
x86/Kconfig:source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"

so all of these would need to be removed.

> ---
>  drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
> index 152744c5e..a506867d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/Kconfig
> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ source "drivers/message/fusion/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "drivers/firewire/Kconfig"
>  
> +source "drivers/firmware/Kconfig"
> +
>  source "drivers/macintosh/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "drivers/net/Kconfig"
> 


-- 
~Randy