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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2016-12-19 10:59:42 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-12 11:51:25 +0100
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tree67917b005564722ba7c295495a61ea3c97da4172 /drivers/tty
parentdce22df190011db408cd25430f1b19f6dec4e94f (diff)
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serial: 8250_mid: make option visible
Hiding tristate options with "if EXPERT" is usually not a good idea. You can decide that the driver should be included by default, but you don't know if the user wants it built-in or as a module. Hiding the option prevents the user from making that decision. This is even more problematic when said option selects other options. You end up with several device drivers forcibly built into the kernel. In this specific case, drivers 8250_mid, virt-dma, hsu_dma and hsu_dma_pci end up being built-in as soon as SERIAL_8250=y. It is very common for distribution kernels to build the subsystem core code into the kernel, because almost everybody will need it, but build all the device drivers as modules. This should be made possible. So drop the "if EXPERT" and make SERIAL_8250_MID visible. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Fixes: 1fc969c75986 ("serial: 8250_mid: make module available only on X86") Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
index cd8fafe23849..c0bf996a826e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_LPSS
- Intel Quark X1000 SoC
config SERIAL_8250_MID
- tristate "Support for serial ports on Intel MID platforms" if EXPERT
+ tristate "Support for serial ports on Intel MID platforms"
default SERIAL_8250
depends on SERIAL_8250 && PCI
depends on X86 || COMPILE_TEST
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