Re: [PATCH] misc/mei: INTEL_MEI should depend on X86 or DRM_XE

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026, at 09:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 at 05:45, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> DRM_I915 depends on PCI && X86 (so "X86 || DRM_I915" is redundant, which
>> is why I didn't add it in my version of the patch. If DRM_I915 is useful
>> on non-x86 we might want to change that as well.
>
> Then the dependency of DRM_I915 on X86 should be dropped first...

This is not easily done, with the amount of 'select' statements
from the I915 drive, including X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES and ACPI_WMI.

At the minimum, changing this should involve turning a lot of
these into 'depends on' to avoid dependency loops, plus
build testing random configurations.

    Arnd