On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:42:41AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > 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. Makes sense. In that case, it'd be perfectly fine to select the MFD core from the hwmon Kconfig entry, yes. Cheers, Samuel. > -- > Jean Delvare -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
