On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 9:52 PM Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon 27 Sep 08:22 PDT 2021, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > > > - To avoid a circular dependency chain involving RESET_CONTROLLER > > and PINCTRL_SUNXI, change the 'depends on RESET_CONTROLLER' in > > the latter one to 'select'. > > Can you please help me understand why this is part of the same patch? This can be done as a preparatory patch if we decide to do it this way, for the review it seemed better to spell out that this is required. I still hope that we can avoid adding another 'select RESET_CONTROLLER' if someone can figure out what to do instead. The problem here is that QCOM_SCM selects RESET_CONTROLLER, and turning that into 'depends on' would in turn mean that any driver that wants to select QCOM_SCM would have to have the same RESET_CONTROLLER dependency. An easier option might be to find a way to build QCOM_SCM without RESET_CONTROLLER for compile testing purposes. I don't know what would break from that. Arnd