x86/Kconfig: move and modify CONFIG_I8K
In Kconfig, inside the "Processor type and features" menu, there is the CONFIG_I8K option: "Dell i8k legacy laptop support". This is very confusing - enabling CONFIG_I8K is not required for the kernel to support old Dell laptops. This option is specific to the dell-smm-hwmon driver, which mostly exports some hardware monitoring information and allows the user to change fan speed. This option is misplaced, so move CONFIG_I8K to drivers/hwmon/Kconfig, where it belongs. Also, modify the dependency order - change select SENSORS_DELL_SMM to depends on SENSORS_DELL_SMM as it is just a configuration option of dell-smm-hwmon. This includes changing the option type from tristate to bool. It was tristate because it could select CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM=m . When running "make oldconfig" on configurations with CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM enabled , this change will result in an additional question (which could be printed several times during bisecting). I think that tidying up the configuration is worth it, though. Next patch tweaks the description of CONFIG_I8K. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl> Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220212125654.357408-1-mat.jonczyk@o2.plSigned-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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