Commit aee62305 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] i2c: Suggest N for rare devices in Kconfig

Improve the Kconfig help text of the follwing i2c drivers:
* busses/i2c-pca-isa.c
* chips/pcf8574.c
* chips/pcf8591.c
These are hard to detect and building them into the kernel
results in long delays at boot.

March 2006, thread "I2C_PCA_ISA causes boot delays"
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114360399415744&w=2

April 2006, thread "i2c-related 1-minute hang during bootup"
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114640992330721&w=2Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 177d165d
...@@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ config I2C_PCA_ISA ...@@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ config I2C_PCA_ISA
tristate "PCA9564 on an ISA bus" tristate "PCA9564 on an ISA bus"
depends on I2C depends on I2C
select I2C_ALGOPCA select I2C_ALGOPCA
default n
help help
This driver supports ISA boards using the Philips PCA 9564 This driver supports ISA boards using the Philips PCA 9564
Parallel bus to I2C bus controller Parallel bus to I2C bus controller
...@@ -510,6 +511,11 @@ config I2C_PCA_ISA ...@@ -510,6 +511,11 @@ config I2C_PCA_ISA
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called i2c-pca-isa. will be called i2c-pca-isa.
This device is almost undetectable and using this driver on a
system which doesn't have this device will result in long
delays when I2C/SMBus chip drivers are loaded (e.g. at boot
time). If unsure, say N.
config I2C_MV64XXX config I2C_MV64XXX
tristate "Marvell mv64xxx I2C Controller" tristate "Marvell mv64xxx I2C Controller"
depends on I2C && MV64X60 && EXPERIMENTAL depends on I2C && MV64X60 && EXPERIMENTAL
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...@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ config SENSORS_EEPROM ...@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ config SENSORS_EEPROM
config SENSORS_PCF8574 config SENSORS_PCF8574
tristate "Philips PCF8574 and PCF8574A" tristate "Philips PCF8574 and PCF8574A"
depends on I2C && EXPERIMENTAL depends on I2C && EXPERIMENTAL
default n
help help
If you say yes here you get support for Philips PCF8574 and If you say yes here you get support for Philips PCF8574 and
PCF8574A chips. PCF8574A chips.
...@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ config SENSORS_PCF8574 ...@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ config SENSORS_PCF8574
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called pcf8574. will be called pcf8574.
These devices are hard to detect and rarely found on mainstream
hardware. If unsure, say N.
config SENSORS_PCA9539 config SENSORS_PCA9539
tristate "Philips PCA9539 16-bit I/O port" tristate "Philips PCA9539 16-bit I/O port"
depends on I2C && EXPERIMENTAL depends on I2C && EXPERIMENTAL
...@@ -59,12 +63,16 @@ config SENSORS_PCA9539 ...@@ -59,12 +63,16 @@ config SENSORS_PCA9539
config SENSORS_PCF8591 config SENSORS_PCF8591
tristate "Philips PCF8591" tristate "Philips PCF8591"
depends on I2C && EXPERIMENTAL depends on I2C && EXPERIMENTAL
default n
help help
If you say yes here you get support for Philips PCF8591 chips. If you say yes here you get support for Philips PCF8591 chips.
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called pcf8591. will be called pcf8591.
These devices are hard to detect and rarely found on mainstream
hardware. If unsure, say N.
config ISP1301_OMAP config ISP1301_OMAP
tristate "Philips ISP1301 with OMAP OTG" tristate "Philips ISP1301 with OMAP OTG"
depends on I2C && ARCH_OMAP_OTG depends on I2C && ARCH_OMAP_OTG
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