linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] arm64: Kconfig: Update ARCH

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Message-ID: <YUmE/LqlFCiongfn@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:08:44 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Will McVicker <willmcvicker@...gle.com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] arm64: Kconfig: Update ARCH_EXYNOS select configs

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Will McVicker wrote:

> This patch series tries to address the issue of ARCH_EXYNOS force selecting
> a handful of drivers without allowing the vendor to override any of the
> default configs. This takes away from the flexibilty of compiling a generic
> kernel with exynos kernel modules. For example, it doesn't allow vendors to
> modularize these drivers out of the core kernel in order to share a generic
> kernel image across multiple devices that require device-specific kernel
> modules.
> 
> To address this without impacting the existing behavior, this series
> switches the default config logic for the offending configs to use "default
> y if ARCH_EXYNOS" versus having ARCH_EXYNOS directly select them. I have
> verified that these patches do not impact the default aarch64 .config.
> 
> Will McVicker (4):
>   clk: samsung: change COMMON_CLK_SAMSUNG default config logic
>   soc: samsung: change SOC_SAMSUNG default config logic
>   pinctrl: samsung: change PINCTRL_EXYNOS default config logic
>   rtc: change HAVE_S3C_RTC default config logic
> 
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms    | 7 -------
>  drivers/clk/samsung/Kconfig     | 1 +
>  drivers/pinctrl/samsung/Kconfig | 1 +
>  drivers/rtc/Kconfig             | 1 +
>  drivers/soc/samsung/Kconfig     | 4 ++++
>  5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

For all patches in the series:

Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>

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