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From: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lists LAKML <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
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	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
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	Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Cleanup arm64 driver dependencies
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:33:20 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP245DXBwwtcbjRQV_bCdYK5SZH9C9oxZJ2rFraJpbd5L0sHvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190912094651.GH2036@sirena.org.uk>

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 3:17 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 03:48:44AM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
>
> > I was using initcall_debugging on a QCOM platform and ran across a bunch of
> > driver initcalls that are enabled even if their SoC support is disabled.
>
> What exactly is the problem you're trying to fix here?  For the
> drivers I looked at these were bog standard register the driver
> with the subsystem type initcalls on optional drivers so not
> doing anything particularly disruptive or anything like that.

I was trying to prune the defconfig only to drivers that make sense on
the SoC. e.g. Why should I see a brcmstb_soc_device_early_init() call
on a QCOM system when I've disabled ARCH_BRCMSTB?

I came across this while trying to figure out how to make thermal and
cpufreq frameworks initialise as early as possible.

> For any given system that's going to be an issue for the
> overwhelming majority of drivers on the tree, including those
> that aren't associated with any particular architecture.

Indeed. From a quick check, MFD and GPIO has a bunch of 'generic'
drivers that aren't SoC-specific. I'm sure there are several such
drivers in regulator framework too. They don't need to be 'fixed'.

I was just trying to ring-fence obvious SoC-specific drivers behind a
ARCH_FOO dependency since they seemed like low-hanging fruit. Let me
know if it isn't a good use of everyone's time.

Regards,
Amit

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 22:18 [PATCH 0/4] Cleanup arm64 driver dependencies Amit Kucheria
2019-09-11 22:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: Kconfig: Fix XGENE " Amit Kucheria
2019-09-12  1:03   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-09-12  9:23   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-12  9:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] Cleanup arm64 " Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-12  9:47   ` Amit Kucheria
2019-09-12 10:03   ` Mark Brown
2019-09-12  9:46 ` Mark Brown
2019-09-12 10:03   ` Amit Kucheria [this message]
2019-09-12 10:53     ` Mark Brown

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