linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] ipmi: ssif

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Message-ID: <8b7841a9-9313-b1d5-8a80-a65cfa8e7b4d@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:06:05 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Quan Nguyen <quan@...amperecomputing.com>,
        Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Open Source Submission <patches@...erecomputing.com>,
        Phong Vo <phong@...amperecomputing.com>,
        "Thang Q . Nguyen" <thang@...amperecomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver



On 6/15/22 02:02, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
> index b061e6b513ed..18a89093d64e 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
> @@ -169,6 +169,17 @@ config ASPEED_BT_IPMI_BMC
>  	  found on Aspeed SOCs (AST2400 and AST2500). The driver
>  	  implements the BMC side of the BT interface.
>  
> +config SSIF_IPMI_BMC
> +	tristate "SSIF IPMI BMC driver"
> +	select I2C

No. That should be:
	depends on I2C

We don't select an entire subsystem just to satisfy one driver.

> +	select I2C_SLAVE
> +	help
> +	  This enables the IPMI SMBus system interface (SSIF) at the
> +	  management (BMC) side.
> +
> +	  The driver implements the BMC side of the SMBus system
> +	  interface (SSIF).
> +

Thanks.
-- 
~Randy