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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ACPI / PMIC: xpower: fix IOSF_MBI dependency
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:09:34PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02-11-18 12:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > We still get a link failure with IOSF_MBI=m when the xpower driver
> > is built-in:
> >
> > drivers/acpi/pmic/intel_pmic_xpower.o: In function `intel_xpower_pmic_update_power':
> > intel_pmic_xpower.c:(.text+0x4f2): undefined reference to `iosf_mbi_block_punit_i2c_access'
> > intel_pmic_xpower.c:(.text+0x5e2): undefined reference to `iosf_mbi_unblock_punit_i2c_access'
> >
> > This makes the dependency stronger, so we can only build when IOSF_MBI
> > is built-in.
> >
> > Fixes: 6a9b593d4b6f ("ACPI / PMIC: xpower: Add depends on IOSF_MBI to Kconfig entry")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Hmm, it is probably better to make IOSF_MBI a bool, it is selected by:
> X86_INTEL_QUARK and X86_INTEL_LPSS which are both bools themselves.
>
> Arguably it should also be hidden and only enabled through these selects.
> Does someone from Intel have an opinion on making it hidden?

We have number of cases where tristate modules depend on or select it.
So, I have not seen a good argument to make it boolean.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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