linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/11] arm64: broadcom: Removed forced select of interrupt controllers

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Message-ID: <87sfxsua9l.wl-maz@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 25 Sep 2021 13:09:42 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] arm64: broadcom: Removed forced select of interrupt controllers

On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:05:45 +0100,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> Now that the various second level interrupt controllers have been moved
> to IRQCHIP_PLATFORM_DRIVER and they do default to ARCH_BRCMSTB and
> ARCH_BCM2835 where relevant, remove their forced selection from the
> machine entry to allow an user to build them as modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> index b0ce18d4cc98..2e9440f2da22 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ config ARCH_BCM2835
>  	select ARM_AMBA
>  	select ARM_GIC
>  	select ARM_TIMER_SP804
> -	select BRCMSTB_L2_IRQ
>  	help
>  	  This enables support for the Broadcom BCM2837 and BCM2711 SoC.
>  	  These SoCs are used in the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 devices.
> @@ -82,8 +81,6 @@ config ARCH_BITMAIN
>  config ARCH_BRCMSTB
>  	bool "Broadcom Set-Top-Box SoCs"
>  	select ARCH_HAS_RESET_CONTROLLER
> -	select BCM7038_L1_IRQ
> -	select BRCMSTB_L2_IRQ
>  	select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
>  	select PINCTRL
>  	help

How does the user know about that? People will build a kernel
selecting their platform, and find out it doesn't work. This seems
terribly counter-productive to me.

	M.

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