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Date:   Mon, 9 Sep 2019 13:16:47 +0300
From:   "Shenhar, Talel" <talel@...zon.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: alpine: select AL_POS


On 9/9/2019 12:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:14 AM Talel Shenhar <talel@...zon.com> wrote:
>> Amazon's Annapurna Labs SoCs uses al-pos driver, enable it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Talel Shenhar <talel@...zon.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> index 4778c77..bd86b15 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ config ARCH_SUNXI
>>   config ARCH_ALPINE
>>          bool "Annapurna Labs Alpine platform"
>>          select ALPINE_MSI if PCI
>> +       select AL_POS
>>          help
>>            This enables support for the Annapurna Labs Alpine
>>            Soc family.
> Generally I think this kind of thing should go into the defconfig
> rather than being hard-selected. There might be users that
> want to not enable the driver.
>
>         Arnd

The reason for selecting it is because this is a driver that we will 
always want for ARCH_ALPINE.