Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add hotkey driver

[Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 07:29 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:50:02PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 21:35 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:44:41PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> > > >  
> > > > +config YEELOONG_HOTKEY
> > > > +       tristate "Hotkey Driver"
> > > > +       depends on YEELOONG_VO
> > > > +       select INPUT
> > > 
> > > I think this should be depend, not select. 
> > 
> > Hmm, okay, will replace it by depend later ;)
> > 
> > > 
> > > > +       select INPUT_EVDEV
> > > > +       select SUSPEND
> > > 
> > > Does it break without SUSPEND?
> > 
> > not break, but I just want to select something for users, so, they will
> > have no need to care about which extra option is needed.
> 
> We use  select extensively on MIPS but select is dangerous and you stepped
> into its trap.  When SUSPEND is enabled by a user in
> kernel/power/Kconfig it can only be choosen if PM is enabled.  By
> "select SUSPEND" this dependency so now it is possible to have a kernel
> where SUSPEND is enabled without PM which won't work.
> 

Get it, thanks for your clarification ;)

Regards,
        Wu Zhangjin