linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] rpmsg: Allow RPMSG_VIRTIO to be enabled via menuconfig or defconfig

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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 09:30:42 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>, linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rpmsg: Allow RPMSG_VIRTIO to be enabled via menuconfig
 or defconfig

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Sun 01 Oct 21:18 PDT 2017, Anup Patel wrote:
>
>> Currently, RPMSG_VIRTIO can only be enabled if some other kconfig
>> option selects it. This does not allow it to be enabled for
>> virtualized systems where Virtio RPMSG is available over Virtio
>> MMIO or PCI transport.
>>
>> This patch updates RPMSG_VIRTIO kconfig option so that we can
>> enable the VirtIO RPMSG driver via menuconfig or defconfig.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
>> ---
>
> This part looks good (and really I think this is the right thing to do).
> But turning RPMSG_VIRTIO into a user selectable item makes it invalid to
> "select RPMSG_VIRTIO" from drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig.
>
> Can you please as part of this change remove those selects and as a
> separate patch add CONFIG_RPMSG_VIRTIO=m to
> arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig?

Sure, I will update the patch as-per your suggestion and also
send separate patch to add CONFIG_RPMSG_VIRTIO=m in
arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig.

Regards,
Anup