lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Apr]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: linux-next: Tree for Apr 29 (drivers/leds/leds-turris-omnia)
On Mon 2019-04-29 18:44:39, Marek Behun wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:37:53 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> > On Mon 2019-04-29 17:38:42, Marek Behun wrote:
> > > I am sending patch only adding the I2C dep. Theoretically it is
> > > possible that someone uses the same I2C API in their microcontroller on
> > > another architecture.
> >
> > Theoretically. But we both now that probability of that is very low,
> > and that likely driver would need other updates, too... right?
>
> What would be the benefit to add ARM dependency? So that distro
> compilations don't ship the turris_omnia driver unnecesarily?

That, and so that people are not asked "do you want to enable omnia
LEDs?" when they update their kernel on i386.
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-04-29 18:54    [W:0.058 / U:0.080 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site