linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Only select essential drivers for SOC

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Message-ID: <CAEUhbmVqrgVF+FFsaO47nOBOZUWzA-LfAfubACNg8yJcx152gw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:42:35 +0800
From:   Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@...il.com>
To:     Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@....com>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Only select essential drivers for SOC_VIRT config

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 8:00 PM Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com> wrote:
>
> The kconfig select causes build failues for SOC_VIRT config becaus
> we are selecting lot of VIRTIO drivers without selecting all required
> dependencies.
>

Isn't this a sign of some VIRTIO Kconfig options are not correctly
expressing dependencies?

> Better approach is to only select essential drivers from SOC_VIRT
> config option and enable required VIRTIO drivers using defconfigs.
>
> Fixes: 759bdc168181 ("RISC-V: Add kconfig option for QEMU virt machine")
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs           | 14 --------------
>  arch/riscv/configs/defconfig      | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>

Regards,
Bin