Hello Krzysztof, On 08/18/2015 10:09 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 18.08.2015 17:05, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> Hello Krzysztof, >> >> On 08/18/2015 09:57 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >>> On 18.08.2015 16:01, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >>>> The ChromeOS mfd driver (MFD_CROS_EC) select the CROS_EC_PROTO config >>>> symbol because the driver uses some communication helper functions in >>>> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c but other drivers depends on >>>> CROS_EC_PROTO instead. Mixing select and depends can lead to circular >>>> Kconfig dependencies so the MFD_CROS_EC select should be changed to a >>>> depends on CROS_EC_PROTO instead. >>>> >>>> But doing so will break git bisect-ability since MFD_CROS_EC will not >>>> be enabled anymore unless the default configs first explicitly enable >>>> the CROS_EC_PROTO dependency. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> --- >>>> arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 1 + >>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >>> >>> I saw the discussion about circular dependency but I wasn't following >>> it. Currently the CROS_EC_PROTO is not user-selectable. How can you >>> depend on it? How can be enabled on different configs (customized by user)? >>> >>> Maybe the questions are answered by code in different patches? >> >> Yes, that's why I posted "[PATCH] platform/chrome: Make CROS_EC_PROTO >> a user selectable option" [0]. >> >> I posted as separate patches because there isn't a dependency between >> them and once all the defconfig patches and the patch to make the >> CROS_EC_PROTO symbol user selectable lands, I'll post the patch to >> change select for depends on to avoid a regression. > > Makes sense now. > > Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Thanks! >> >> Maybe I should had posted as a series (or at least cc all the people >> in all the patches) to not left these questions unanswered... > > Yep, Cc-ing or a short cover letter would probably answer my question. :) > Yes, sorry about that. > Best regards, > Krzysztof > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html