On 3/7/2013 11:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:20:45PM -0800, David Brown wrote: >> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:29:42PM -0800, David Brown wrote: >>>> +menu "Qualcomm MSM SSBI bus support" >>>> + depends on ARCH_MSM >>> >>> Why? >> >> In the sense that ARCH_MSM are the only devices that ever were, or ever >> will be made with this device. It doesn't strictly depend on it, but do >> we want to clutter the config for everything else. > > It's not "clutter". You want me to build this on other platforms, to > catch api and other types of build breakages. This is the way for > almost all Linux drivers. Not having a depends on helps build coverage, but I have seen objections to showing up irrelevant configurations to users (of x86 for example). See one here from Linus for OMAP_OCP2SCP http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1210.0/00785.html If this case is different, I am not sure why. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
