On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:53:21PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:00:55PM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote: > > Commit da3c6647(I2C/ACPI: Clean up I2C ACPI code and Add CONFIG_I2C_ACPI > > config) adds a new kernel config I2C_ACPI and make I2C core built in > > when the config is selected. This is wrong because distributions > > etc generally compile I2C as a module and the commit broken that. > > This patch is to make I2C core able to be a module when I2C_ACPI is > > selected. Original issue the commit da3c6647 tried to avoid will > > be fixed in ACPICA and it's rarely triggered during unloading module. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu....@intel.com> > > I wonder if we can do > > depends on I2C=y > > here? If I understand it right, then we only build the ACPI_I2C if I2C > is compiled into the kernel. That way the problem da3c6647 tried to > solve doens't re-appear. > > We can later on relax this once ACPICA has been fixed. Thoughts?
I had the same idea yet my travel to Chicago interrupted thinking about it further. Once I get rid of my jetlag, I'll have a closer look. Unless you already came up with the perfect solution until then, of course ;)
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