On Tuesday 02 February 2016 02:05 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The davinci platform has tried to get support for the EEPROM right, > but failed to get a clean build so far. At the moment, we get > a warning whenever CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled, as that is needed by > EEPROM_AT24: > > warning: (MACH_DAVINCI_EVM && MACH_SFFSDR && MACH_DAVINCI_DM6467_EVM && > MACH_DAVINCI_DM365_EVM && MACH_DAVINCI_DA830_EVM && MACH_MITYOMAPL138 && > MACH_MINI2440) selects EEPROM_AT24 which has unmet direct dependencies (I2C > && SYSFS) > > Kevin Hilman initially added the 'select' to ensure that EEPROM_AT24 > is always enabled in machines that really want it for normal operation > (i.e. for reading the MAC address). This broke when I2C was disabled, > and Russell King followed up with another patch to select that as > well. > > I now see that the SYSFS dependency is still missing, which leaves > us with three options: > > a) add 'select SYSFS' in addition to the others > b) change AT24_EEPPROM to work without sysfs (should be possible) > c) remove all those selects again and get the files to build when > I2C is disabled. > > I would really hate to do a) because adding select statements that > hardwire user-selectable symbols is generally a bad idea. I first > tried b) but then ended up redoing the patch from scratch to approach > c), so we can also remove the other selects. > > I checked that CONFIG_I2C is still enabled with davinci_all_defconfig, > so that does not have to change. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > Fixes: 45b146d746ea ("ARM: Davinci: Fix I2C build errors") > Fixes: 22ca466847ad ("davinci: kconfig: select at24 eeprom for selected > boards")
This looks good to me. The #ifdefs in the middle of davinci_evm_init() are an eyesore, but getting rid of the selects is a big plus. Thanks, Sekhar