Re: [PATCH 3/3] platform/x86: Move all simatic ipc drivers to the subdirectory siemens

[Henning Schild]

Am Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:23:30 +0300
schrieb Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:52:13PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> > Users without a Siemens Simatic IPC will not care about any of these
> > drivers. Users who do care can enable the submenu and all drivers
> > behind it will be enabled.  
> 
> ...
> 
> >  # Siemens Simatic Industrial PCs
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_X86_PLATFORM_DRIVERS_SIEMENS)		+=
> > siemens/  
> 
> Do you need conditional here? We have stumbled over similar for
> entire intel subfolder, it might affect the rest as well when you
> don't expect it.
> 
> obj-y		+= siemens/
> 
> ?
> 

It was requested to be done like that by Hans, he wanted me to do a
similar thing that
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f1e1ea516721d1ea0b21327ff9e6cb2c2bb86e28
is doing.

And that is what i did. If there was a y ... the whole "one switch to
rule them all" story would not work out anymore.

Thanks for the review though.

Henning