On 7 October 2015 at 17:52, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> [151007 06:46]: >> On 7 October 2015 at 15:26, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Good idea, how about something like the following? AFAIK that's the >> >> > only .config option needed as MFD_SYSCON is selected by Kconfig >> >> > already. >> >> Similar to MFD_SYSCON, why don't we have REGULATOR_PBIAS to be >> selected when omap_hsmmc is being used? >> >> It seems like that should also be a patch for the rc, right!? > > Well selecting CONFIG_REGULATOR is still optional and force selecting > drivers usually leads into randconfig build issues sooner or later. > And we'd like to make everything into loadable modules eventually. I am not sure I get your point. Perhaps I was too vague in what I suggested. Unless we express the dependencies via Kconfig files (or perhaps via updated defconfigs), how do you expect build/boot automated tools to handle this? *People* can of course manually poll a README to learn about new dependencies for each new kernel version, but me personally would prefer if don't have to. > > We could print a warning during MMC1 probe if REGULATOR_PBIAS > is not selected and attempt to continue probing? No thanks, it would sprinkle drivers with ugly code :-). I would also expect that we would get warnings even when we shouldn't, especially as a cross SoC/board driver may have different dependencies. To me REGULATOR_PBIAS is a dependency required by a certain SoC/board when MMC_OMAP_HS is selected. Isn't such dependency easiest dealt with from SoC/board Kconfig files? Llike for example in the OMAP2 case, arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig. Kind regards Uffe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html