Re: [PATCH] spi-nor: intel-spi: Fix Kconfig dependency to LPC_ICH

From: Bin Meng
Date: Tue Oct 24 2017 - 03:08:29 EST


Hi Mika,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 09:38:57PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
>> > Also, the 'depends on EXPERT' statement looks misplaced,
>> > enabling EXPERT should only be there to allow you to turn
>> > extra things *off*, not to hide device drivers.
>> >
>>
>> I will leave this to Mika to comment the "EXPERT" usage. If we remove
>> this, I think that should be another patch and the documentation of
>> this driver should be updated too.
>
> Yeah, I guess we can remove that EXPERT dependency. It was added there
> exactly because I did not want ordinary users playing with the device
> and inadvertently overwrite their BIOSes (if it is not protected). I
> also agree it should be a separate patch. Do you want to do that or
> should I?

Thanks. I can prepare a patch to remove EXPERT.

Regards,
Bin