Re: [PATCH v2] iio: accel: add Freescale MMA7455L/MMA7456L 3-axis accelerometer driver

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On 20 October 2015 at 13:05, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 01:00 PM, Joachim Eastwood wrote:
>> On 20 October 2015 at 10:05, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 10/19/2015 09:00 PM, Joachim Eastwood wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> +config MMA7455
>>>> +     tristate "Freescale MMA7455L/MMA7456L Accelerometer Driver"
>>>> +     depends on I2C || SPI_MASTER
>>>> +     select IIO_BUFFER
>>>> +     select IIO_TRIGGERED_BUFFER
>>>> +     select MMA7455_I2C if I2C
>>>> +     select MMA7455_SPI if SPI
>>>
>>> Ah, damm, I shouldn't have said bmg160 is a good example without actually
>>> looking at its Kconfig entry. Only saw the C files and those looked good.
>>>
>>> This is still problematic. The depends on clause allows this driver to be
>>> built-in if either I2C is built-in or SPI_MASTER is built-in. And then the
>>> respective I2C and SPI modules will also be selected as built-in even though
>>> the I2C symbol is only selected as a module. So you now have built-in code
>>> that tries to reference code that is only available as a module.
>>>
>>> A better solution is to make the Kconfig entries for the I2C and SPI modules
>>> user selectable and then let them select the main module.
>>
>> Something like this:
>>
>> config MMA7455
>>         tristate
>>
>> config MMA7455_I2C
>>         tristate "Freescale MMA7455L/MMA7456L Accelerometer I2C Driver"
>>         depends on I2C
>>         select IIO_BUFFER
>>         select IIO_TRIGGERED_BUFFER
>>         select MMA7455
>>         select REGMAP_I2C
>>         help
>>             ...
>>
>> config MMA7455_SPI
>>         tristate "Freescale MMA7455L/MMA7456L Accelerometer SPI Driver"
>>         depends on SPI_MASTER
>>         select IIO_BUFFER
>>         select IIO_TRIGGERED_BUFFER
>>         select MMA7455
>>         select REGMAP_SPI
>>         help
>>             ...
>
> Yes, but move the select IIO_BUFFER and IIO_TRIGGERED_BUFFER to the shared
> symbol.

ah, yes, that is better. Thanks.


regards,
Joachim Eastwood
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