Re: [PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable CROS_EC_PROTO for ChromeOS EC mfd driver

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Krzysztof,

On 08/18/2015 10:09 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 18.08.2015 17:05, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Krzysztof,
>>
>> On 08/18/2015 09:57 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 18.08.2015 16:01, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>>> The ChromeOS mfd driver (MFD_CROS_EC) select the CROS_EC_PROTO config
>>>> symbol because the driver uses some communication helper functions in
>>>> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c but other drivers depends on
>>>> CROS_EC_PROTO instead. Mixing select and depends can lead to circular
>>>> Kconfig dependencies so the MFD_CROS_EC select should be changed to a
>>>> depends on CROS_EC_PROTO instead.
>>>>
>>>> But doing so will break git bisect-ability since MFD_CROS_EC will not
>>>> be enabled anymore unless the default configs first explicitly enable
>>>> the CROS_EC_PROTO dependency.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> I saw the discussion about circular dependency but I wasn't following
>>> it. Currently the CROS_EC_PROTO is not user-selectable. How can you
>>> depend on it? How can be enabled on different configs (customized by user)?
>>>
>>> Maybe the questions are answered by code in different patches?
>>
>> Yes, that's why I posted "[PATCH] platform/chrome: Make CROS_EC_PROTO
>> a user selectable option" [0].
>>
>> I posted as separate patches because there isn't a dependency between
>> them and once all the defconfig patches and the patch to make the
>> CROS_EC_PROTO symbol user selectable lands, I'll post the patch to
>> change select for depends on to avoid a regression.
> 
> Makes sense now.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks!

>>
>> Maybe I should had posted as a series (or at least cc all the people
>> in all the patches) to not left these questions unanswered...
> 
> Yep, Cc-ing or a short cover letter would probably answer my question. :)
>

Yes, sorry about that.
 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 
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Best regards,
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Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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