Re: x86/hwmon: conditionalize coretemp's dependency on PCI

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Mon Sep 27 2010 - 03:09:04 EST


>>> On 24.09.10 at 20:55, Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:26:33AM -0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> PCI specific code is needed only when Atom CPUs are potentially
>> supported by the kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>
>>
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>> --- linux-2.6.36-rc4/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig 2010-09-13 08:45:02.000000000 +0200
>> +++ 2.6.36-rc4-x86-coretemp-maybe-pci/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig 2010-09-10
> 16:24:16.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -401,7 +401,8 @@ config SENSORS_GL520SM
>>
>> config SENSORS_CORETEMP
>> tristate "Intel Core/Core2/Atom temperature sensor"
>> - depends on X86 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
>> + depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
>> + depends on PCI || (!MATOM && !GENERIC_CPU && !X86_GENERIC)
>> help
>> If you say yes here you get support for the temperature
>> sensor inside your CPU. Most of the family 6 CPUs
>
> Resending my reply to this one as well. Again, apologies if there is
> duplication.
>
> The coretemp code unconditionally calls pci functions, even if PCI is not
> defined.
> I am concerned that this might cause problems. It might be better to stick
> with
> the more generic dependency instead of trying to optimize too much.

pci.h takes care to define stub inline functions for the !CONFIG_PCI
case. It seemed largely odd for a driver like this to depend on PCI
at all, and hence I think it is more transparent to make the needs
explicit.

Jan

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