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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Shenhar, Talel" <talel@amazon.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	mjourdan@baylibre.com, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: alpine: select AL_POS
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 15:45:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a34eKFXoAPOfkFN5+H4kxOhRjXgws_0wy+d-186LFxcTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab512ced-d989-5c10-a550-2a4723d38e7e@amazon.com>

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 12:17 PM Shenhar, Talel <talel@amazon.com> wrote:
> On 9/9/2019 12:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:14 AM Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> >> index 4778c77..bd86b15 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> >> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ config ARCH_SUNXI
> >>   config ARCH_ALPINE
> >>          bool "Annapurna Labs Alpine platform"
> >>          select ALPINE_MSI if PCI
> >> +       select AL_POS
> >>          help
> >>            This enables support for the Annapurna Labs Alpine
> >>            Soc family.
> > Generally I think this kind of thing should go into the defconfig
> > rather than being hard-selected. There might be users that
> > want to not enable the driver.
>
> The reason for selecting it is because this is a driver that we will
> always want for ARCH_ALPINE.

Can you put the exact requirement (other than "we want this")
in the changelog text then? It's still not clear to me what breaks
without this driver.

        Arnd

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-09  9:10 [PATCH 0/3] Amazon's Annapurna Labs POS Driver Talel Shenhar
2019-09-09  9:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: soc: al-pos: Amazon's Annapurna Labs POS Talel Shenhar
2019-09-09  9:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] soc: amazon: al-pos: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs POS driver Talel Shenhar
2019-09-09  9:44   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-09 11:12     ` Shenhar, Talel
2019-09-09 13:41       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-09 14:11         ` Shenhar, Talel
2019-09-09 15:16           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-10  6:21             ` Shenhar, Talel
2019-09-09 11:51   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-09  9:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: alpine: select AL_POS Talel Shenhar
2019-09-09  9:40   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-09 10:16     ` Shenhar, Talel
2019-09-09 13:45       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-09-09 13:58         ` Shenhar, Talel
2019-09-09 15:08           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-10  6:17             ` Shenhar, Talel

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