Hello, On 01/30/2015 01:51 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > On 01/29/2015 10:11 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: >>> + help >>> + If you say Y here, you get support for talking to the ChromeOS EC >>> + over an LPC bus. This uses a simple byte-level protocol with a >>> + checksum. This is used for userspace access only. The kernel >>> + typically has its own communication methods. >>> + >> >> What happens when you say M? >> > > Since it is a tristate kconfig symbol, it can be built as a kernel module > but since there isn't a LPC subsystem, the platform device is registered > in the module_init() function. So, building as a module is trickier since > there won't be an uevent that can trigger a module auto-load based on the > modinfo aliases information. >
FYI, I noticed that other x86 platform drivers use the dmi system information to fill dmi modaliases so the modules are auto-loaded. So I did the same and posted a new version 5 [0] of this series. Best regards, Javier [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/2/214 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
