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SubjectRe: [PATCHv1] firmware: intel_stratix10_service: add hardware dependency
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:42 AM Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 1/23/19 10:37 AM, Alan Tull wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:00 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:47:56AM -0600, richard.gong@linux.intel.com wrote:
> >>> From: Richard Gong <richard.gong@intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> Add a Kconfig dependency to ensure Intel Stratix10 service layer driver
> >>> can be built only on the platform that supports it.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Richard Gong <richard.gong@intel.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> >>> index f754578..cac16c4 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> >>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> >>> @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ config FW_CFG_SYSFS_CMDLINE
> >>>
> >>> config INTEL_STRATIX10_SERVICE
> >>> tristate "Intel Stratix10 Service Layer"
> >>> - depends on HAVE_ARM_SMCCC
> >>> + depends on ARCH_STRATIX10 && HAVE_ARM_SMCCC
> >>
> >> That's lame, what about building for testing?
> >
> > Do you mean this instead?
> >
> > depends on (ARCH_STRATIX10 && HAVE_ARM_SMCCC) || COMPILE_TEST
> >
> >>
> >> And is this needed now, for 5.0-final, or can it wait for 5.1?
> >
> > This change will reduce kernel size for most arm64. It can go into
> > whichever kernel. We can resubmit allowing for COMPILE_TEST.
> >
>
> I don't see how this is true? ARM64 has a single defconfig and
> ARCH_STRATIX10 is included in that defconfig. I don't see how adding
> this dependency will reduce the kernel size for most arm64?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. By default it will be built in since there's
one arm64 defconfig. But adding ARCH_STRATIX10 dependency here
supports users who turn off all the ARCH_* they don't care about in
their own defconfig that won't get upstreamed.

>
> Dinh

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