Re: [PATCH RFC] regmap: Move selecting for REGMAP_MDIO and REGMAP_IRQ

[Andrew Davis <afd@ti.com>]

On 5/19/25 5:12 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:17:22AM -0500, Andrew Davis wrote:
>> If either REGMAP_IRQ or REGMAP_MDIO are set then REGMAP is also set.
>> This then enables the selecting of IRQ_DOMAIN or MDIO_BUS from REGMAP
>> based on the above two symbols respectively. This makes it very easy
>> to end up with "circular dependencies".
>>
>> Instead select the IRQ_DOMAIN or MDIO_BUS from the symbols that make
>> use of them. This is almost equivalent to before but makes it less
>> likely to end up with false circular dependency detections.
> 
> None of these selects should actually do anything since the symbols are
> themselves selected?

I was thinking the same, but turns out (and I had to check to prove it to
myself) that "select" actually follows up the dependency tree. So unlike
"depends on" which is weird(broken), "select" functions in a sane way.

Andrew