Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon w83627hf: add mfd support.

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Hello Samuel,

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:34:45 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:34:50PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > But then again I don't know if there is already a policy regarding this
> > for MFD drivers. Samuel?
>
> If your subdevice driver is calling some of the MFD core routines, or if
> there's a platform dependency, then your subdevice driver (w83627hf in that
> case) Kconfig should depend on MFD_W83627HF.

Isn't it allowed to do it the other way around, using select? Due to
the history of the w83627hf driver, I fear that users will just see the
hwmon driver they were using disappear, and they will not necessarily
think of checking in MFD. So I expect a high number of support requests
about this.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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