linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] drm/msm/dp: add support for DP PLL driver

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Date:   Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:24:01 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>
Cc:     Tanmay Shah <tanmay@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        freedreno <freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, aravindh@...eaurora.org,
        Abhinav Kumar <abhinavk@...eaurora.org>, khsieh@...eaurora.org,
        Chandan Uddaraju <chandanu@...eaurora.org>,
        Vara Reddy <varar@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] drm/msm/dp: add support for DP PLL driver

Quoting Rob Clark (2020-08-07 08:51:48)
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:27 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/7/20 12:17 AM, Tanmay Shah wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig
> > > index ea3c4d094d09..cc1392b29022 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig
> > > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config DRM_MSM_HDMI_HDCP
> > >  config DRM_MSM_DP
> > >       bool "Enable DP support in MSM DRM driver"
> > >       depends on DRM_MSM
> > > +     default y
> > >       help
> > >         Compile in support for DP driver in msm drm driver. DP external
> > >         display support is enabled through this config option. It can
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > You need a very strong justification to make an optional part of a driver
> > to be "default y".
> 
> My opinion is that if the driver is built, everything should be built.
> This is what makes sense for distro's.  It is only the embedded case
> where you want to trim down unneeded features where you might want to
> disable some parts.  So 'default y' makes sense to me.
> 

Maybe use 'default DRM_MSM' so that it doesn't trigger the 'default y'
filters people have?