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Subject: Re: [PATCH] power: supply: Add dependency to lego-ev3-battery Kconfig
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To:     Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
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From:   David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
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Date:   Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:12:57 -0500
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On 8/12/20 2:02 PM, Alex Dewar wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:24:30AM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
>> On 8/12/20 8:37 AM, Alex Dewar wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:24:10AM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
>>>> On 8/9/20 1:54 PM, Alex Dewar wrote:
>>>>> This battery appears only to be used by a single board (DA850), so it
>>>>> makes sense to add this to the Kconfig file so that users don't build
>>>>> the module unnecessarily. It currently seems to be built for the x86
>>>>> Arch Linux kernel where it's probably not doing much good.
>>>>
>>>> It would probably also make sense to add "default n" since it only
>>>> applies to one board in the entire arch.
>>>
>>> Ah ok. That makes sense. Would you like me to send a follow-on patch for
>>> this?
>>
>> You can just send a v2 patch that includes the change below and the
>> additional change.
> 
> I've just had a look at the documentation[1] and it seems that as there's
> no "default y" there it'll default to n anyway. Have I got that right?
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/kconfig-language.html#menu-attributes
> 

Yes, that seems right. That makes me wonder why this would have been enabled in
the Arch Linux kernel for x86 then.