linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] soc: ixp4xx: Hide auto-selected drivers

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Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 10:44:23 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@...p.pl>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] soc: ixp4xx: Hide auto-selected drivers

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 3:57 PM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de> wrote:

> The 2 IXP4xx SOC drivers qmgr and npe are selected automatically when
> needed so they do not need to be presented to the user.
>
> Furthermore these helper drivers are specific to the IXP4xx arch so
> hide them completely on other architectures so as to not clutter the
> config file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@...p.pl>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> ---
> Note: Ultimately all I want is that non-ixp4xx users are not asked
> about IXP4XX_QMGR and IXP4XX_NPE. If there is another preferred option
> to achieve the same, that would work with me too, just let me know.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

This is the right thing to do, sorry for not doing it like this to begin
with. I'll queue it in my ixp4xx tree.

Yours,
Linus Walleij