Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: Fix PCENGINES_APU2 Kconfig warning

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 1:43 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04.07.19 08:27, YueHaibing wrote:
> > Fix Kconfig warning for PCENGINES_APU2 symbol:
> >
> > WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for GPIO_AMD_FCH
> >   Depends on [n]: GPIOLIB [=n] && HAS_IOMEM [=y]
> >   Selected by [y]:
> >   - PCENGINES_APU2 [=y] && X86 [=y] && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES [=y] && INPUT [=y] && INPUT_KEYBOARD [=y] && LEDS_CLASS [=y]
> >
> > WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for KEYBOARD_GPIO_POLLED
> >   Depends on [n]: !UML && INPUT [=y] && INPUT_KEYBOARD [=y] && GPIOLIB [=n]
> >   Selected by [y]:
> >   - PCENGINES_APU2 [=y] && X86 [=y] && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES [=y] && INPUT [=y] && INPUT_KEYBOARD [=y] && LEDS_CLASS [=y]
> >
> > Add GPIOLIB dependency to fix it.
>

Applied.

> hmm, I'm not really happy w/ the kernel config system at that point:
>
> If the select on the gpio driver would just subsequently enable gpiolib,
> everything would be fine. But that contradicts how subsystems are
> currently handled - you first have to enable gpio subsystem before
> choosing anything that depends on it :(
>
> Could it make sense to refactor gpiolib in a way that pieces directly
> needed by gpio consumers or drivers (hmm, perhaps have separate
> dependency symbols for consumer vs driver) can be selected directly,
> even if the big gpio subsystem knob is disabled ? (but the other things
> like userland interfaces would remain disabled) ?
>
> OTOH, for this particular patch:
>

> Ack-By: Enrico Weigelt <info@xxxxxxxxx>

Patchwork doesn't recognize non-standard tags, thus the patch went
without it to the upstream.

>
>
> --mtx
>
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> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> Free software and Linux embedded engineering
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko