On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2013 11:22:01 Alan Stern wrote: > > > > Instead of doing this, it makes more sense to enable USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD > > whenever host-side USB is enabled. In other words, > > > > def_bool USB > > The problem with this is that a lot of drivers (24 to be exact) are defined > like > > config INPUT_ATI_REMOTE2 > tristate "ATI / Philips USB RF remote control" > depends on USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD > select USB Oops. That's a problem. > so that would create a circular dependency unless we change all of them > at once. I did that when creating this patch, but then decided to > revert it for now and do smaller steps. Okay. Changing those 24 should be the next step. > We could do > > config USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD > def_bool USB_SUPPORT > > or > > config USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD > def_bool y > > which would both have the exact same behavior as 'def_bool HAS_IOMEM'. I'm in favor of "def_bool y". Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
