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[5/5] drivers/tty: make serial 8250_lpc18xx.c Kconfig a tristate

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Paul Gortmaker Aug. 19, 2015, 9:48 p.m. UTC
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:

8250/Kconfig:config SERIAL_8250_LPC18XX
8250/Kconfig:        bool "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"

...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.

When targetting orphaned modular code in non-modular drivers, this
came up.  Joachim indicated that the driver was actually meant to
be tristate but ended up bool by accident.  So here we make it
tristate instead of removing the modular code that was essentially
orphaned.

Suggested-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Joachim Eastwood Aug. 20, 2015, 6:58 a.m. UTC | #1
On 19 August 2015 at 23:48, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> 8250/Kconfig:config SERIAL_8250_LPC18XX
> 8250/Kconfig:        bool "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> When targetting orphaned modular code in non-modular drivers, this
> came up.  Joachim indicated that the driver was actually meant to
> be tristate but ended up bool by accident.  So here we make it
> tristate instead of removing the modular code that was essentially
> orphaned.
>
> Suggested-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
> Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Acked-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>

Build tested as a module on lpc18xx.

Thanks for fixing it Paul.


regards,
Joachim Eastwood
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diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
index e1de1181b322..f5c4b01f6f1d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@  config SERIAL_8250_FINTEK
 	  through the PNP driver. If unsure, say N.
 
 config SERIAL_8250_LPC18XX
-	bool "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"
+	tristate "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"
 	depends on SERIAL_8250 && OF && (ARCH_LPC18XX || COMPILE_TEST)
 	default ARCH_LPC18XX
 	help