linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] gpio: msc313: MStar MSC313 GPIO driver

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdbCB_n_jNJ+wqWWMKHG80du3kqya0vdOu41Cb4vdvOtyg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:42:29 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:     Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] gpio: msc313: MStar MSC313 GPIO driver

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:31 AM Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

> > If your SoC is only used by OpenWrt (like ixp4xx) then it is fine
> > to just use bool because that distribution is always built with an
> > image for a specific hardware, whereas distributions are generic.
>
> Speaking for myself (since I have a few now), I'm not running OpenWRT
> on mine but my own distro, and I guess most users will run either
> Buildroot or their own distro. It's unlikely that we'll see very
> generic distros there given the limited storage you'd typically have
> in an SPI NOR (16-32 MB) and the small RAM (64MB) which tends to
> discourage anyone from booting a regular distro over other storage
> anyway.
>
> Thus my guess is that most users will keep building their own kernels.
>
> But this just emphasizes your points :-)

I think that is a good argument to keep this as bool.

Yours,
Linus Walleij