Commit 19458893 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Fixes: 1fc969c7 ("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: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent dce22df1
......@@ -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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