linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] counter: Fix menuconfig "Counter support" submenu entries disappearance

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Date:   Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:11:08 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        andy.shevchenko@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] counter: Fix menuconfig "Counter support" submenu
 entries disappearance

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:12:13 -0400
William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 02:00:37PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 6/20/23 10:01, William Breathitt Gray wrote:  
> > > The current placement of the I8254 Kconfig entry results in the
> > > disappearance of the "Counter support" submenu items in menuconfig. Move
> > > the I8254 above the menuconfig COUNTER entry to restore the intended
> > > submenu behavior.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: d428487471ba ("counter: i8254: Introduce the Intel 8254 interface library module")
> > > Reported-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/32ddaa7b-53a8-d61f-d526-b545bd561337@linux.intel.com/
> > > Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>  
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> > 
> > but why is I8254 here at all? Users cannot enable it
> > and nothing selects it.  Is it a WIP?
> > 
> > Thanks.  
> 
> There are pending patches for two drivers to use it: 104-dio-48e[^1] and
> stx104[^2]. Those will be picked up in their respective subsystem trees
> (by Bart and Jonathan I presume).
> 

I missed the IIO patch in that series. Could you resend please.

Jonathan

> William Breathitt Gray
> 
> [^1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dc4d0d5ca6ea28eda18815df114ecb21226cb345.1681665189.git.william.gray@linaro.org/
> [^2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/45d35b6f6e8d51df788b2bc85c456bfd45476b1a.1681665189.git.william.gray@linaro.org/