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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:59:00 +0200
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, Rafał Miłecki
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcma,ssb: simplify dependency handling for bcma and ssb
drivers
Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2023-12-18 at 12:58 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>
> Dunno, I'm not super involved with this but ...
>
>> +++ b/drivers/bcma/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
>> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> -config BCMA_POSSIBLE
>> - bool
>> - depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
>> - default y
>> -
>> menuconfig BCMA
>> tristate "Broadcom specific AMBA"
>> - depends on BCMA_POSSIBLE
>> + depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
>
> [...]
>> config BRCMSMAC
>> tristate "Broadcom IEEE802.11n PCIe SoftMAC WLAN driver"
>> - depends on MAC80211
>> - depends on BCMA_POSSIBLE
>> + depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA && MAC80211
>> select BCMA
>
> to me it kind of seems more obvious for example in this case to say
> "depend on BCMA_POSSIBLE and select BCMA" rather than open-coding the
> BCMA dependencies both here and in BCMA? Now granted, they're rather
> unlikely to _change_, but it still seems more obvious?
I was thinking the same. Lukas, is there a specific reason why you want
to change this or this just something you noticed by chance?
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