Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: add temporary PCI dependency

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:29:50PM +0000, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: add temporary PCI dependency
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Mike Marciniszyn wrote:
> > > The move from infiniband to staging requires a temporary PCI
> > > dependency to fix 0-day build issues.  The
> > > drivers/infiniband/hw/Kconfig gratuitously added it for all drivers.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/hfi1/Kconfig |    2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Why are these drivers not in drivers/staging/infiniband/ ?  Why do they all
> > need their own drivers/staging/ directory?
> > 
> 
> Greg, what is the path name convention for adding a driver to staging
> when its eventual destination is part of a subsystem?  Perhaps it
> should be drivers/staging/hw/hfi1?

As I have no idea what this driver is, or what it is for, or why it is
in staging, I can't answer this...

greg k-h
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