linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] nvmem: Add spmi-nvmem driver

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Message-ID: <20250417135702.GA30334@srini-hackbase>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:57:02 +0100
From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@...nel.org>
To: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>
Cc: fnkl.kernel@...il.com, Sven Peter <sven@...npeter.dev>,
	Janne Grunau <j@...nau.net>, Neal Gompa <neal@...pa.dev>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, asahi@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] nvmem: Add spmi-nvmem driver

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:49:28AM -0400, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote:
> > > +config NVMEM_SPMI
> > > +	tristate "Generic SPMI NVMEM"
> > > +	default ARCH_APPLE
> > Why default is set to ARCH_APPLE?
> > 
> > This will endup with y in arm64 defconfig, means increasing the size of
> > kernel.
> 
> I mean, eventually I think we /do/ want M1 properly supported in the
> arm64 defconfig, no? I'm not sure what the criteria is for any other
> driver to be defconfig or not, though.
cat arch/arm64/configs/defconfig  | grep APPLE
CONFIG_ARCH_APPLE=y

Criteria for other drivers default should be not selected, 
and should be module if they are part of defconfig, rather than
inbuilt. Not sure how most of the ARCH_APPLE drivers ended up using
default ARCH_APPLE.

--srini