On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:21:55PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > Here, I am assuming that block/paride is the core code used by both > > PARIDE and PATA_PARPORT. Not sure what PARPORT_PC does nor what its > > dependency on block/paride code is. > > There's no common core in block/paride. The block/paride/Makefile says: > obj-$(CONFIG_PARIDE) += paride.o > obj-$(CONFIG_PARIDE_ATEN) += aten.o > obj-$(CONFIG_PARIDE_...other protocol drivers > > So if PARIDE and all protocol drivers are disabled, nothing is compiled there. Yeah. The pattern of unconditionally descending into a subdirectory isn't entirely uncommon. I think this is perfectly fine here.
