linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Don't select Kconfig symbols by default

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Message-ID: <20200424193723.GA179443@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:37:23 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Don't select Kconfig symbols by default

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:40PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> 
> A few Kconfig symbols snuck in with "default y".  In general we don't want
> that because we don't want to bloat the kernel with unnecessary drivers.
> 
> Remove the ones that are optional.
> 
> There are a few left, but they depend on something else that seems like the
> real choice, e.g., XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND depends on XEN and PCI_XGENE_MSI
> depends on PCI_XGENE.
> 
> Bjorn Helgaas (4):
>   PCI: dra7xx: Don't select CONFIG_PCI_DRA7XX_HOST by default
>   PCI: keystone: Don't select CONFIG_PCI_KEYSTONE_HOST by default
>   PCI/AER: Don't select CONFIG_PCIEAER by default
>   PCI/ASPM: Don't select CONFIG_PCIEASPM by default
> 
>  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/Kconfig | 2 --
>  drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig           | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

Applied with Sathy's reviewed-by on the AER patch and the tweak Rob
suggested to the dra7xx one to pci/kconfig for v5.8.