The driver's Kconfig symbol is a boolean but nothing prevents the driver to be built as a module instead of built-in. It is true that most system integrators will choose the latter but the config should not restrict it.
Suggested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlow...@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com> --- drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig index eea61e349e26..be0ff820621b 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig @@ -514,8 +514,8 @@ config MFD_88PM860X battery-charger under the corresponding menus. config MFD_MAX14577 - bool "Maxim Semiconductor MAX14577/77836 MUIC + Charger Support" - depends on I2C=y + tristate "Maxim Semiconductor MAX14577/77836 MUIC + Charger Support" + depends on I2C select MFD_CORE select REGMAP_I2C select REGMAP_IRQ -- 2.5.0