Re: [PATCH] bcma,ssb: simplify dependency handling for bcma and ssb drivers

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On Mon, 2023-12-18 at 12:58 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:

Dunno, I'm not super involved with this but ...

> +++ b/drivers/bcma/Kconfig
> @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -config BCMA_POSSIBLE
> -	bool
> -	depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA
> -	default y
> -
>  menuconfig BCMA
>  	tristate "Broadcom specific AMBA"
> -	depends on BCMA_POSSIBLE
> +	depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA

[...]
>  config BRCMSMAC
>  	tristate "Broadcom IEEE802.11n PCIe SoftMAC WLAN driver"
> -	depends on MAC80211
> -	depends on BCMA_POSSIBLE
> +	depends on HAS_IOMEM && HAS_DMA && MAC80211
>  	select BCMA

to me it kind of seems more obvious for example in this case to say
"depend on BCMA_POSSIBLE and select BCMA" rather than open-coding the
BCMA dependencies both here and in BCMA? Now granted, they're rather
unlikely to _change_, but it still seems more obvious?

johannes





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