Re: [PATCH] power: supply: Add dependency to lego-ev3-battery Kconfig options

[David Lechner]

On 8/12/20 2:02 PM, Alex Dewar wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:24:30AM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > On 8/12/20 8:37 AM, Alex Dewar wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:24:10AM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > > > On 8/9/20 1:54 PM, Alex Dewar wrote:
> > > > > This battery appears only to be used by a single board (DA850), so it
> > > > > makes sense to add this to the Kconfig file so that users don't build
> > > > > the module unnecessarily. It currently seems to be built for the x86
> > > > > Arch Linux kernel where it's probably not doing much good.
> > > >
> > > > It would probably also make sense to add "default n" since it only
> > > > applies to one board in the entire arch.
> > >
> > > Ah ok. That makes sense. Would you like me to send a follow-on patch for
> > > this?
> >
> > You can just send a v2 patch that includes the change below and the
> > additional change.
>
> I've just had a look at the documentation[1] and it seems that as there's
> no "default y" there it'll default to n anyway. Have I got that right?
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/kconfig-language.html#menu-attributes

Yes, that seems right. That makes me wonder why this would have been enabled in
the Arch Linux kernel for x86 then.