[PATCH 1/6] staging: kpc2000: make kconfig symbol 'KPC2000' select dependencies

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 22 12:27:14 UTC 2019


On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:13:57PM +0000, Geordan Neukum wrote:
> The kpc2000 core makes calls against functions which are conditionally
> exported upon the kconfig symbols 'MFD_CORE' and 'UIO' being selected
> Therefore, in order to guarantee correct compilation, the 'KPC2000'
> kconfig symbol (which brings in that code) must explicitly select its
> hard dependencies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geordan Neukum <gneukum1 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig
> index fb5922928f47..8992dc67ff37 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig
> @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
>  config KPC2000
>  	bool "Daktronics KPC Device support"
>  	depends on PCI
> +	select MFD_CORE
> +	select UIO

depends on is better than select.  There's a change to depend on UIO for
this code already in my -linus branch which will show up in Linus's tree
in a week or so.

Are you sure we need MFD_CORE as well for this code?  Why hasn't that
been seen on any build errors?

thanks,

greg k-h


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