Re: [PATCH v10 4/8] i2c: thunderx: Add SMBUS alert support

From: Jan Glauber
Date: Tue Aug 23 2016 - 17:52:59 EST


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:39:48PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:57:25PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:51:30PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > > > Add SMBUS alert interrupt support. For now only device tree is
> > > > supported for specifying the alert. In case of ACPI an error
> > > > is returned.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > What about 'select I2C_SMBUS' in Kconfig and skip all the ifdeffery?
> > >
> >
> > Wouldn't that prevent a distribution that has I2C_HELPER_AUTO set
> > from enabling the ThunderX i2c driver at all?
>
> From commit e2ca307439fb9df922c3e8891289a2ac05812fb7:
>
> ...
> Bus drivers which implement SMBus alert should select this option, so
> in most cases this option is hidden and the user doesn't have to care
> about it.
>

OK, makes sense. I'll remove the ifdef's.