Re: [PATCH 2/5] platform: surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Fri Jan 14 2022 - 03:32:04 EST


Hi,

On 1/14/22 09:29, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:21 AM Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 4:03 PM Jarrett Schultz <jaschultzms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Since the Surface XBL Driver does not depend on ACPI, the
>>>> platform/surface directory as a whole no longer depends on ACPI. With
>>>> respect to this, the ACPI dependency is moved into each config that depends
>>>> on ACPI individually.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jarrett Schultz <jaschultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 272479928172edf0 ("platform:
>>> surface: Propagate ACPI Dependency").
>>>
>>>> --- a/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
>>>>
>>>> menuconfig SURFACE_PLATFORMS
>>>> bool "Microsoft Surface Platform-Specific Device Drivers"
>>>> - depends on ACPI
>>>> default y
>>>> help
>>>> Say Y here to get to see options for platform-specific device drivers
>>>
>>> Without any dependency, all users configuring a kernel are now asked
>>> about this. Is there any other platform dependency that can be used
>>> instead?
>>
>> there's probably no symbol that would be true for x86 and arm64 while
>> being false for everything else. Any ideas?
>
> depends on ARM64 || X86 || COMPILE_TEST?

That sounds reasonable to me, I would be happy to take a patch for that.

Regards,

Hans