[PATCH] Kconfig: add temporary PCI dependency

Marciniszyn, Mike mike.marciniszyn at intel.com
Tue Aug 18 16:29:50 UTC 2015


> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: add temporary PCI dependency
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Mike Marciniszyn wrote:
> > The move from infiniband to staging requires a temporary PCI
> > dependency to fix 0-day build issues.  The
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/Kconfig gratuitously added it for all drivers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/hfi1/Kconfig |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Why are these drivers not in drivers/staging/infiniband/ ?  Why do they all
> need their own drivers/staging/ directory?
> 

Greg, what is the path name convention for adding a driver to staging when its eventual destination is part of a subsystem?  Perhaps it should be drivers/staging/hw/hfi1?

Doug, can you get this patch so that linux-next is fixed?

Mike 


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