linux-kernel - Re: remoteproc: don't allow modular build

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Message-ID: <20190919174724.GB9622@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:47:24 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
Cc:     hch@....de, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        Linux-OMAP <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kristo, Tero" <t-kristo@...com>
Subject: Re: remoteproc: don't allow modular build

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:01:35AM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
> Hi Christoph/Bjorn,
>
> There are a bunch of defconfigs that rely on modular build of remoteproc.
>
> If i do a git grep CONFIG_REMOTEPROC on linux-next:
>
> arch/arm/configs/davinci_all_defconfig:CONFIG_REMOTEPROC=m
> arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig:CONFIG_REMOTEPROC=m
> arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig:CONFIG_REMOTEPROC=m
> arch/arm/configs/qcom_defconfig:CONFIG_REMOTEPROC=y
> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_REMOTEPROC=m
>
> All of them now stop building the remoteproc as a module and all the 
> dependent modules consequently do not get built. Do you recommend all of 
> them to get converted to built in?

Yes, I guess we need to do that.