linux-kernel - Re: Dependency on non-existing config I2C_DMI_CORE in commit a2f416bf062a ("HID: multitouch: Add quirks for flipped axes")

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Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2023 11:42:21 +0100
From:   Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
To:     Allen Ballway <ballway@...omium.org>
Cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...math.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dependency on non-existing config I2C_DMI_CORE in commit
 a2f416bf062a ("HID: multitouch: Add quirks for flipped axes")

Hi Allen,

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 3:44 PM Allen Ballway <ballway@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Lukas,
>
> Thanks for catching this, that's definitely a mistake in my code.
> That was supposed to be CONFIG_I2C_HID_CORE.
>
> Should I send a follow-up patch for this, or another revision for the patch?
> It looks like it hasn't been pulled into the mainline branch yet and I'm not
> familiar with updating it while in a maintainer branch.

I saw that you sent a followup on the initial series, but can you
instead send a fix on top of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid.git/log/?h=for-6.3/multitouch
(hid.git tree, branch for-6.3/multitouch)?

Cheers,
Benjamin

>
> Thanks,
> Allen
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:44 AM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Allen,
> >
> > with commit a2f416bf062a ("HID: multitouch: Add quirks for flipped
> > axes"), you add code that is dependent on the CONFIG_I2C_DMI_CORE.
> > However, this config symbol has not been defined anywhere in the
> > kernel repository. Is this a mistake in your code and you intended to
> > refer to another config symbol? Is there another patch to come that
> > adds this config symbol? Or is this a config symbol that only exists
> > in some out-of-tree repository?
> >
> > Something might be odd here, because this code is effectively dead now
> > with being dependent on a non-existing config symbol.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Lukas
>