Re: [PATCH 2/5] platform: surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Jarrett,

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 4:03 PM Jarrett Schultz <jaschultzms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since the Surface XBL Driver does not depend on ACPI, the
> platform/surface directory as a whole no longer depends on ACPI. With
> respect to this, the ACPI dependency is moved into each config that depends
> on ACPI individually.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarrett Schultz <jaschultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 272479928172edf0 ("platform:
surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency").

> --- a/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
>
>  menuconfig SURFACE_PLATFORMS
>         bool "Microsoft Surface Platform-Specific Device Drivers"
> -       depends on ACPI
>         default y
>         help
>           Say Y here to get to see options for platform-specific device drivers

Without any dependency, all users configuring a kernel are now asked
about this. Is there any other platform dependency that can be used
instead?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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