linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: fix kconfig dependency warnings for SND_SOC

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Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:32:02 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Necip Fazil Yildiran <fazilyildiran@...il.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        paul@...zz.com, jeho@...utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: fix kconfig dependency warnings for SND_SOC_WM8731

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 04:12:58PM +0300, Necip Fazil Yildiran wrote:
> SND_SOC_WM8731 was made visible and dependent on other symbols with commit
> 1291e14175e6 ("ASoC: codecs: Make OF supported CODECs visible in Kconfig").
> To this respect, the symbols selecting SND_SOC_WM8731 turned out to be
> overlooking its dependencies.

> Switch reverse dependencies on SND_SOC_WM8731 to normal dependencies.

No, this is very user hostile - users shouldn't have to know exactly
which chips a given machine driver needs to figure out how to get the
config option visible.  Please fix the selects in the machine driver
instead.

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