Re: [PATCH] bcma,ssb: simplify dependency handling for bcma and ssb drivers

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 3:59 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
>

I just noticed this by chance---well, I was wondering what these
config symbols were doing in my kernel build configuration (they are
actually in every config). While reading through the code, I was
confused on what the dependencies were trying to tell me, as the
config symbols and conditions seemed to repeat over and over in
different places.

I thought it was worth a clean up and this was the patch I came up
with in the end.

Lukas