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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 04:47:27PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> 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

"Similar" is not the "same". :-)

> 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.

See these:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/8bd836feb6ca
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/4f6c131c3c31

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko