linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] firmware: arm_scmi: add config dependency for smc transport

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Message-ID: <CAN5uoS-t2De5OvawUSeK1NuskqpBEt-rWGVtJky-E=+RRpe+_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Oct 2020 14:33:41 +0200
From:   Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@...aro.org>
To:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Souvik Chakravarty <Souvik.Chakravarty@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] firmware: arm_scmi: add config dependency for smc transport

On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 23:08, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Etienne Carriere wrote:
> > Fix dependencies for configuration switch ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL that
> > is not exclusively dependent on MAILBOX since the alternate
> > smc transport that is depends on HAVE_ARM_SMCCC_DISCOVERY since [1].
> >
>
> Do you need any build issues ? I don't see why this is needed.
>

This change is for consistency of the kernel configuration.
Without this change, a kernel configured without CONFIG_MAILBOX
cannot embed SCMI support even is using only the SMC transport
enabled thanks to HAVE_ARM_SMCCC_DISCOVERY.

Regards,
Etienne

> --
> Regards,
> Sudeep