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Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:12:13 -0400
From:   William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@linaro.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] counter: Fix menuconfig "Counter support" submenu
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 02:00:37PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On 6/20/23 10:01, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > The current placement of the I8254 Kconfig entry results in the
> > disappearance of the "Counter support" submenu items in menuconfig. Move
> > the I8254 above the menuconfig COUNTER entry to restore the intended
> > submenu behavior.
> >=20
> > Fixes: d428487471ba ("counter: i8254: Introduce the Intel 8254 interfac=
e library module")
> > Reported-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/32ddaa7b-53a8-d61f-d526-b545bd56133=
7@linux.intel.com/
> > Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@linaro.org>
>=20
> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>=20
> but why is I8254 here at all? Users cannot enable it
> and nothing selects it.  Is it a WIP?
>=20
> Thanks.

There are pending patches for two drivers to use it: 104-dio-48e[^1] and
stx104[^2]. Those will be picked up in their respective subsystem trees
(by Bart and Jonathan I presume).

William Breathitt Gray

[^1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dc4d0d5ca6ea28eda18815df114ecb21226cb345.=
1681665189.git.william.gray@linaro.org/
[^2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/45d35b6f6e8d51df788b2bc85c456bfd45476b1a.=
1681665189.git.william.gray@linaro.org/

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