Re: [PATCH] watchdog: da9062: Add dependency on I2C

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On 20-02-08 06:22, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 2/8/20 6:01 AM, Marco Felsch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 20-02-08 05:08, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Since commit 057b52b4b3d58 ("watchdog: da9062: make restart handler atomic
> > > safe"), the driver calls i2c functions directly. It now therefore depends
> > > on I2C. This is a hard dependency which overrides COMPILE_TEST.
> > 
> > I just wondered why it doesn't complain if no regmap support is on and
> > surprise it provides stubs ^^ Is it worth to add i2c stubs too?
> > 
> 
> I'd rather not go there. In practice it doesn't make much of a difference -
> it just ensures that COMPILE_TEST can run on architectures which don't
> support I2C. I think 0day only finds it because they select COMPILE_TEST
> and then selectively disable I2C (and maybe other configuration options)
> to catch problems like this.

I know, just saying that this is a bit confusing for a reader because
the deps are handled correctly by MFD_* and REGMAP_* symbols. Anyway
thanks for fixing the bug I introduced. I was a bit to busy last week.

Regards,
  Marco

> Guenter
> 

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