linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] nouveau: fix dependencies for DEVICE

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Message-ID: <20200508150041.GI19158@mellanox.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 12:00:41 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nouveau: fix dependencies for DEVICE_PRIVATE

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE cannot be selected in configurations
> without ZONE_DEVICE:

It is kind of unfortunate to lift dependencies from DEVICE_PRIVATE
into the users, is this really how kconfig is supposed to work or is
something else wrong here?

Jason