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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver
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To:     Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>,
        Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>,
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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On 6/16/22 00:25, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> On 15/06/2022 23:06, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/15/22 02:02, Quan Nguyen wrote:
>>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
>>> index b061e6b513ed..18a89093d64e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
>>> @@ -169,6 +169,17 @@ config ASPEED_BT_IPMI_BMC
>>>         found on Aspeed SOCs (AST2400 and AST2500). The driver
>>>         implements the BMC side of the BT interface.
>>>   +config SSIF_IPMI_BMC
>>> +    tristate "SSIF IPMI BMC driver"
>>> +    select I2C
>>
>> No. That should be:
>>     depends on I2C
>>
>> We don't select an entire subsystem just to satisfy one driver.
>>
>>> +    select I2C_SLAVE
>>> +    help
>>> +      This enables the IPMI SMBus system interface (SSIF) at the
>>> +      management (BMC) side.
>>> +
>>> +      The driver implements the BMC side of the SMBus system
>>> +      interface (SSIF).
>>> +
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Thanks Randy,
> it should be change to "depends on I2C && I2C_SLAVE"

Either way is OK for I2C_SLAVE AFAIK.

thanks.

-- 
~Randy