linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:51:02 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>,
        sparmaintainer@...sys.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: change select to depends for subsystems

On 01/15/18 06:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 09:10:54PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>
>> Drivers should not 'select' a subsystem. Instead they should depend
>> on it. If the subsystem is disabled, the user probably did that for
>> a purpose and one driver shouldn't be changing that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>> Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>
>> Cc: sparmaintainer@...sys.com (Unisys internal)
>> Cc: devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig |    3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- lnx-415-rc8.orig/drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig
>> +++ lnx-415-rc8/drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig
>> @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
>>  menuconfig UNISYSSPAR
>>  	bool "Unisys SPAR driver support"
>>  	depends on X86_64 && !UML
>> -	select PCI
>> -	select ACPI
>> +	depends on PCI && ACPI
>>  	---help---
>>  	Support for the Unisys SPAR drivers
>>  
> 
> Does not apply to my tree at all :(

Bad Randy.  Patch is not needed... which is good.


-- 
~Randy