Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:16:50 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: x86/hwmon: conditionalize coretemp's dependency on PCI |
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:08:50AM -0400, Jan Beulich wrote: [...]
> >> > >> config SENSORS_CORETEMP > >> tristate "Intel Core/Core2/Atom temperature sensor" > >> - depends on X86 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL > >> + depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL > >> + depends on PCI || (!MATOM && !GENERIC_CPU && !X86_GENERIC) > >> help > >> If you say yes here you get support for the temperature > >> sensor inside your CPU. Most of the family 6 CPUs > > > > Resending my reply to this one as well. Again, apologies if there is > > duplication. > > > > The coretemp code unconditionally calls pci functions, even if PCI is not > > defined. > > I am concerned that this might cause problems. It might be better to stick > > with > > the more generic dependency instead of trying to optimize too much. > > pci.h takes care to define stub inline functions for the !CONFIG_PCI > case. It seemed largely odd for a driver like this to depend on PCI > at all, and hence I think it is more transparent to make the needs > explicit. > Seems to me the dependency should not exist in the first place, then. Otherwise, the driver would still be disabled for GENERIC_CPU, which isn't good either.
Are there examples of other drivers which are not defining the PCI dependency but are conditionally calling pci functions ?
Guenter
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