[alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 08/11] ASoC: Intel: atom: Make PCI dependency explicit

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael at kernel.org
Wed Jan 2 10:36:43 CET 2019


On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 10:34 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 8:56 PM Sinan Kaya <okaya at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Code does unconditional select for IOSF_MBI. IOSF_MBI driver depends on
> > CONFIG_PCI set but this is not specified anywhere.
>
> IMO it would be better to say
>
> "After commit 5d32a66541c46 (PCI/ACPI: Allow ACPI to be built without
> CONFIG_PCI set) dependencies on CONFIG_PCI that previously were
> satisfied implicitly through dependencies on CONFIG_ACPI have to be
> specified directly.  For this reason, add a direct dependency on
> CONFIG_PCI to the IOSF_MBI driver."
>
> If you did that, the reviewers would know upfront what this was about
> and that might save at least one back-and-forth e-mail exchange in
> each case.

But, of course, the changelog doesn't even match the patch contents in
this particular case.  Please fix that.


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