On 18.08.2015 16:01, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The ChromeOS mfd driver (MFD_CROS_EC) select the CROS_EC_PROTO config
> symbol because the driver uses some communication helper functions in
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c but other drivers depends on
> CROS_EC_PROTO instead. Mixing select and depends can lead to circular
> Kconfig dependencies so the MFD_CROS_EC select should be changed to a
> depends on CROS_EC_PROTO instead.
> 
> But doing so will break git bisect-ability since MFD_CROS_EC will not
> be enabled anymore unless the default configs first explicitly enable
> the CROS_EC_PROTO dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

I saw the discussion about circular dependency but I wasn't following
it. Currently the CROS_EC_PROTO is not user-selectable. How can you
depend on it? How can be enabled on different configs (customized by user)?

Maybe the questions are answered by code in different patches?

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig 
> b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> index 1ff2bfa2e183..537391ea37ac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y
>  CONFIG_PL330_DMA=y
>  CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS=y
>  CONFIG_CROS_EC_CHARDEV=y
> +CONFIG_CROS_EC_PROTO=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MAX77686=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_MAX77802=y
>  CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_S2MPS11=y
> 

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