From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>,
        Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
        Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
        "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] [kbuild] Add and use IS_REACHABLE macro
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:29:42 +0100
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On Thursday 19 February 2015 16:06:18 Michal Marek wrote:
> > We have similar problems in other areas
> > of the kernel. In theory, we could enforce the VIDEO_TUNER driver to
> > be modular here by adding lots of dependencies to it:
> > 
> > config VIDEO_TUNER
> >       tristate
> >       depends on MEDIA_TUNER_TEA5761 || !MEDIA_TUNER_TEA5761
> >       depends on MEDIA_TUNER_TEA5767 || !MEDIA_TUNER_TEA5767
> >       depends on MEDIA_TUNER_MSI001  || !MEDIA_TUNER_MSI001
> 
> Nah, that's even uglier. I suggest to merge your IS_REACHABLE patch.
> 

Ok, can I take this as an ack from your side to merge the
include/linux/kconfig.h part of the patch through the linux-media
tree?

I thought about splitting up the patch into two, but that would
just make merging it harder because we'd still have the dependency.

	Arnd
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