Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: make Siemens Simatic watchdog driver default on platform

[Henning Schild]

Am Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:10:09 -0700
schrieb Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 7/18/23 07:42, Henning Schild wrote:
> > Am Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:20:48 +0300
> > schrieb Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >   
> >> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:52:11PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:  
> >>> If a user did choose to enable Siemens Simatic platform support
> >>> they likely want that driver to be enabled without having to flip
> >>> more config switches. So we make the watchdog driver config switch
> >>> default to the platform driver switches value.  
> >>
> >> A nit-pick below.
> >>
> >> ...
> >>  
> >>>   config SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC_WDT
> >>>   	tristate "Siemens Simatic IPC Watchdog"
> >>>   	depends on SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC  
> >>  
> >>> +	default SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC  
> >>
> >> It's more natural to group tristate and default, vs. depends and
> >> select.  
> > 
> > Will be ignored unless maintainer insists.
> >   
> 
> Maintainer wants to know why "default SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC" is needed
> or warranted instead of the much simpler and easier to understand
> "default y".

I thought a "default y" or "default m" was maybe not the best idea for
a platform that is not super common. That is why i did not dare to even
think about defaulting any of the Simatic stuff to not-no.

But it seems that this would be ok after all. And i would be very happy
to do so because it means less work on distro configs.

SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC_WDT will drive a platform device which gets
registered by SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC and nothing else. That is why
"default SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC" was chosen.

But if i may i would change that to "default m", not "y" because there
is an out of tree driver package which if installed on top, should be
able to override the in-tree drivers.

So i will go ahead and make that one "default m"

regards,
Henning

> Guenter
>