Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 13:53:18 EST


On 04/20/18 10:42, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> As reported by Randy Dunlap:
>>> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for DELL_SMBIOS
>>> Depends on [m]: X86 [=y] && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES [=y]
>>> && (DCDBAS [=m] ||
>>> DCDBAS [=m]=n) && (ACPI_WMI [=n] || ACPI_WMI [=n]=n)
>>> Selected by [y]:
>>> - DELL_LAPTOP [=y] && X86 [=y] && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES [=y]
>>> && DMI [=y]
>>> && BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE [=y] && (ACPI_VIDEO [=n] ||
>>> ACPI_VIDEO [=n]=n)
>>> && (RFKILL [=n] || RFKILL [=n]=n) && SERIO_I8042 [=y]
>>>
>
> Right now it's possible to set dell laptop to compile in but this
> causes dell-smbios to compile in which breaks if dcdbas is a module.
>
> Dell laptop shouldn't select dell-smbios anymore, but depend on it.
>
> Fixes: 32d7b19 (platform/x86: dell-smbios: Resolve dependency error on DCDBAS)

meta-comment: the SHA-1 ID should be the first 12 characters of the commit ID
according to Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.


> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
> index 39d06dd..bc309c5 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ config DELL_LAPTOP
> depends on ACPI_VIDEO || ACPI_VIDEO = n
> depends on RFKILL || RFKILL = n
> depends on SERIO_I8042
> - select DELL_SMBIOS
> + depends on DELL_SMBIOS
> select POWER_SUPPLY
> select LEDS_CLASS
> select NEW_LEDS
>


--
~Randy