Re: [PATCH] EDAC, skx: Better fix for randconfig builds

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Nov 07 2018 - 17:03:22 EST


On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 10:39:15AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:32:53PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 02:44:42PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > No, it was unintentional, the 'if ACPI' can be dropped when we add
> > > 'depends on ACPI'.
> >
> > So I have one fix already which takes care of non-sensical configs. If
> > you or Tony wanna make it prettier, feel free to test it thoroughly and
> > send me a patch ontop of
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp.git/log/?h=for-next
> >
>
>
> It was previously noted that Kconfig complained about unmet
> dependencies when trying to configure skx_edac together with
> CONFIG_ACPI=n. First fix for this checked for ACPI when doing
>
> select ACPI_ADXL
>
> but this required stub functions for the case where ACPI wasn't
> selected. It also allowed building a driver that didn't actually
> work for a system that has non-volatile DIMMs.
>
> Arnd Bergmann pointed out that the right fix is to make EDAC_SKX
> "depend on ACPI".
>
> Fixes: a324e9396ca3 ("EDAC, skx: Fix randconfig builds")
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/edac/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> include/linux/adxl.h | 5 -----
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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