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Date:   Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:45:42 -0700
From:   Will McVicker <willmcvicker@...gle.com>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Cc: Android Kernel" <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] soc: samsung: change SOC_SAMSUNG default config logic

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 1:19 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>
> > On 20/09/2021 21:03, Will McVicker wrote:
> > > Switch the default logic to enable SOC_SAMSUNG and it's sub-configs to
> > > be enabled by default via "default y if ARCH_EXYNOS" versus being
> > > selected by the ARCH_EXYNOS config directly. This allows vendors to
> > > disable these configs if they wish and provides additional flexibility
> > > to modularize them in the presence of a generic kernel.
> >
> > This is not true. Vendors cannot disable these options as they are not
> > visible.
>
> Good point, well made.
>
> > Although I understand that Arnd prefers this way and I do not
> > object it, but your explanation is incorrect.

Thanks Krzysztof for the reviews! I'm sorry I missed the whole "hidden
configs" part. I'll upload the series to include the fix that refactos
the Samsung SoC drivers menuconfig which will address that and allow
one to enable/disable those configs. I'm going to hold off though
until we hash out the rest of the discussion in the cover letter
email.

Thanks,
Will

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