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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:38:05 -0600
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To:     Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc:     Achal Verma <a-verma1@ti.com>, Tom Joseph <tjoseph@cadence.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Wilczy_ski <kw@linux.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        Milind Parab <mparab@cadence.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] PCI: j721e: Add support to build pci-j721e as
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 09:06:14PM +0530, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> On 09/01/23 6:05 pm, Achal Verma wrote:
> > Discussed with Vignesh the current config dependency of pcie-cadence and pci-j721e modules,
> > it seems like for now to modularize these drivers with minimal changes is to use "select"
> > as they were used before in PCI_J721E_HOST and PCI_J721E_EP config options.
> 
> With this patch its now impossible to build PCI_J721E_HOST without
> pcie endpoint support (as PCI_ENDPOINT is now a dependency). I don't
> know a way to achieve this via Kconfig magic w/o splitting pci-j721e.c
> into EP/RC (like pcie-rcar* or pcie-rockchip*)
> 
> > Will push updated version with "depends on PCI_ENDPOINT" in PCI_J721E config to check
> > dependency on PCI_ENDPOINT before selecting PCIE_CADENCE_EP.
> > 
> 
> Please don't top post and respond inline:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

Apparently there was also email from Achal to Vignesh that didn't make
it to the archives, probably because it was HTML or other "fancy"
email.  See the thread overview here, which is missing something:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230108155755.2614147-1-a-verma1@ti.com/

It's best to use plain text email when possible.  See
http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html for details.

Bjorn