linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cedrus: Drop unneeded CONFIG

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Date:   Fri, 3 Apr 2020 10:22:06 +0200
From:   Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com>
To:     Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...labora.com, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cedrus: Drop unneeded CONFIG_OF dependency

Hi Ezequiel,

On Thu 02 Apr 20, 16:46, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> The driver is perfectly capable of being built without CONFIG_OF.
> Remove this dependency, which is useful for compile-only tests.

Thanks for the patch!

Alas, the driver won't do anything useful without OF enabled, so it seems
useful to keep that dependency.

I would suggest making this a: depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
instead. What do you think?

Cheers,

Paul

> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/Kconfig
> index 17733e9a088f..59b8d1b29865 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/Kconfig
> @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ config VIDEO_SUNXI_CEDRUS
>  	tristate "Allwinner Cedrus VPU driver"
>  	depends on VIDEO_DEV && VIDEO_V4L2 && MEDIA_CONTROLLER
>  	depends on HAS_DMA
> -	depends on OF
>  	depends on MEDIA_CONTROLLER_REQUEST_API
>  	select SUNXI_SRAM
>  	select VIDEOBUF2_DMA_CONTIG
> -- 
> 2.26.0.rc2
> 

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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