linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mailbox, remoteproc: k3-m4+: fix compile testing

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Message-ID: <20241015114727.57usuxrhpapiofvg@fretted>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:47:27 -0500
From: Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
To: Andrew Davis <afd@...com>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn
 Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier
	<mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...labora.com>,
        Hari
 Nagalla <hnagalla@...com>, Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>,
        <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailbox, remoteproc: k3-m4+: fix compile testing

On 12:26-20241014, Andrew Davis wrote:
> Stubs only make sense for optional components, like GPIOLIB, where
> the driver using that component can continue when it is not available.
> For all drivers that depend on TI-SCI it is not optional. The dependent
> driver *will* fail to probe and error out. These stubs do nothing, and
> I'd like to just remove them.

Fair enough. I'd like to see a series where the drivers have
been converted to modules and we remove the "select" from
arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms - we can then drop the stubs once the
modularization is complete.

-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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