linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] platform: surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:37:57 +0200
From:   Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Jarrett Schultz <jaschultzms@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jarrett Schultz <jaschultz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] platform: surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency


Hi,

Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 1/14/22 09:29, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Hi Felipe,
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:21 AM Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org> wrote:
>>> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> writes:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 4:03 PM Jarrett Schultz <jaschultzms@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>> Since the Surface XBL Driver does not depend on ACPI, the
>>>>> platform/surface directory as a whole no longer depends on ACPI. With
>>>>> respect to this, the ACPI dependency is moved into each config that depends
>>>>> on ACPI individually.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jarrett Schultz <jaschultz@...rosoft.com>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 272479928172edf0 ("platform:
>>>> surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency").
>>>>
>>>>> --- a/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig
>>>>> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
>>>>>
>>>>>  menuconfig SURFACE_PLATFORMS
>>>>>         bool "Microsoft Surface Platform-Specific Device Drivers"
>>>>> -       depends on ACPI
>>>>>         default y
>>>>>         help
>>>>>           Say Y here to get to see options for platform-specific device drivers
>>>>
>>>> Without any dependency, all users configuring a kernel are now asked
>>>> about this. Is there any other platform dependency that can be used
>>>> instead?
>>>
>>> there's probably no symbol that would be true for x86 and arm64 while
>>> being false for everything else. Any ideas?
>> 
>> depends on ARM64 || X86 || COMPILE_TEST?
>
> That sounds reasonable to me, I would be happy to take a patch for that.

fair enough, let's see what Jarrett replies

-- 
balbi