Re: [patch v1] drivers/platform/x86: select hwmon for Mellanox hotplug driver in Kconfig

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 13:11:42 EST


On 10/23/16 22:41, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [patch v1] drivers/platform/x86: select hwmon for Mellanox
>> hotplug driver in Kconfig
>>
>> On 10/23/16 05:45, vadimp@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Add select HWMON for mlxcpld-hotplug driver config, since it requires
>>> hwmon APIs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
>>> b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig index 65d9b04..1853769 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
>>> @@ -1032,6 +1032,7 @@ config MLX_CPLD_PLATFORM
>>> tristate "Mellanox platform hotplug driver support"
>>> default n
>>> depends on MLX_PLATFORM
>>> + select HWMON
>>> select I2C
>>> ---help---
>>> This driver handles hot-plug events for the power suppliers, power
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> did you test this? I would expect it to cause a kconfig warning, something about
>> HWMON having a dependency on HAS_IOMEM.
>
> Hi Randy,
>
> Yes,
> I built tree with this fix with the attached .config file.
> Didn't see kconfig warnings.
> I can have a look again.

No need. lib/Kconfig handles it:

config HAS_IOMEM
bool
depends on !NO_IOMEM
select GENERIC_IO
default y


thanks.
--
~Randy