linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Loadable Module support for PCIe Cadence and J721E

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Message-Id: <174522604280.13504.6844455381479495318.b4-ty@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:30:42 +0530
From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To: lpieralisi@...nel.org, kw@...ux.com, robh@...nel.org, 
 bhelgaas@...gle.com, vigneshr@...com, kishon@...nel.org, 
 18255117159@....com, cassel@...nel.org, 
 wojciech.jasko-EXT@...tinental-corporation.com, thomas.richard@...tlin.com, 
 bwawrzyn@...co.com, Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@...com>
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
 srk@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Loadable Module support for PCIe Cadence and
 J721E


On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:14:04 +0530, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote:
> This series enables support to build the PCIe Cadence Controller drivers
> and the PCI J721E Application/Wrapper/Glue driver as Loadable Kernel
> Modules. The motivation for this series is that PCIe is not a necessity
> for booting the SoC, due to which it doesn't have to be a built-in
> module. Additionally, the defconfig doesn't enable the PCIe Cadence
> Controller drivers and the PCI J721E driver, due to which PCIe is not
> supported by default. Enabling the configs as of now (i.e. without this
> series) will result in built-in drivers i.e. a bloated Linux Image for
> everyone who doesn't have the PCIe Controller. Therefore, with this
> series, after enabling support for building the drivers as loadable
> modules, the driver configs can be enabled in the defconfig to build
> the drivers as loadable modules, thereby enabling PCIe.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/4] PCI: cadence: Add support to build pcie-cadence library as a kernel module
      commit: b51c6fee0a06b71e9bf610f4b294426d0a1f1b51
[2/4] PCI: cadence-host: Introduce cdns_pcie_host_disable helper for cleanup
      commit: 23c498ea9abd7bed7d0f8c1c5f63459100b01028
[3/4] PCI: cadence-ep: Introduce cdns_pcie_ep_disable helper for cleanup
      commit: 5f8c840aa407588a7eae89af1301ba19c307aab7
[4/4] PCI: j721e: Add support to build as a loadable module
      commit: 7a68d4ab59fa66ebbd9b8abdbffcaf748e109ad7

Best regards,
-- 
Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>