Messages in this thread | | | From | Laurent Pinchart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iommu/omap: Fix build error with !IOMMU_SUPPORT | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:54:38 +0200 |
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Hi Joerg,
On Tuesday 20 September 2011 12:01:46 Roedel, Joerg wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:02:22PM -0400, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 September 2011 16:07:39 Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > Without this patch it is possible to select the VIDEO_OMAP3 > > > driver which then selects OMAP_IOVMM. But the omap iommu > > > driver is not compiled without IOMMU_SUPPORT enabled. Fix > > > that by forcing OMAP_IOMMU and OMAP_IOVMM are enabled before > > > VIDEO_OMAP3 can be selected. > > > > What about making VIDEO_OMAP3 select IOMMU_SUPPORT instead then ? Your > > patch would make the OMAP3 ISP driver disappear from the menu until > > IOMMU_SUPPORT gets turned on, which can confuse users. > > Using 'depends on' rather then 'selects' is common standard in Kconfig. > You can't select PCI drivers without selecting PCI first, for example.
You wouldn't expect a PCI driver to work without PCI support. My concern is that most OMAP3 ISP users won't know that IOMMU supports is required. Feel free to ignore it though :-)
> Further selecting whole drivers implicitly isn't a good idea. This can > grow out of control very quickly.
-- Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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