linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] virt: vmgenid: add support for devicetree bindings

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:02:01 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: robh@...nel.org
Cc: tytso@....edu, krzk@...nel.org, "Landge, Sudan" <sudanl@...zon.co.uk>, 
	conor+dt@...nel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	sudanl@...zon.com, graf@...zon.com, dwmw@...zon.co.uk, 
	krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org, xmarcalx@...zon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] virt: vmgenid: add support for devicetree bindings

Hi Rob,

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 3:30 PM Landge, Sudan <sudanl@...zon.co.uk> wrote:
> >   config VMGENID
> >          tristate "Virtual Machine Generation ID driver"
> >          default y
> > -       depends on ACPI
> > +       depends on ACPI || OF
>
> Version 2 of the patches had these flag but were removed in version3
> following the below review comment from Rob:
> "One of those is pretty much always enabled, so it can probably be dropped."
> reference :
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAL_JsqJoB5CYajWuntMdQrJZir+ZA-69Q0cwvxcVZAqs-mXC+Q@mail.gmail.com/

Are you sure about that? I see other drivers that depend on `ACPI ||
OF`, and this driver is totally useless without either disabled
(right?), so the dependency makes sense. I think? Not an expert in
this area, so I'm happy to defer to what you know is best, but I did
want to lightly pushback a bit.

Jason