Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] thermal: intel Quark SoC X1000 DTS thermal driver

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Mar 05 2015 - 11:11:34 EST


On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Ong, Boon Leong
<boon.leong.ong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> +config INTEL_QUARK_DTS_THERMAL
>>> + tristate "Intel Quark DTS thermal driver"
>>> + depends on X86 && IOSF_MBI
>>
>>Since the change is in RC-1 suggest
>>depends on X86_INTEL_QUARK
>>you can skip this though it's not important.
> Ya. That is true now since the below commit has been merged:
> 8bbc2a135b63bee6b41fa90f415521a97995a49f to mainline in 4.0-rc1
>
> On another thought, how about adding INTEL_QUARK_DTS_THERMAL to
> be selected by X86_INTEL_QUARK in arch/x86/Kconfig ... and we can
> drop the above dependencies from here.

This driver as far as I understand is not critical to run Intel Quark.
So, there is should not be a dependency in the platform definition.

On the other hand is the driver will work exclusively on Quark? If so,
better to leave the mentioned dependency, .i.e.
depends on X86_INTEL_QUARK

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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