From: "Shenhar, Talel" <talel@amazon•com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm•com>,
mjourdan@baylibre•com, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro•org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: alpine: select AL_POS
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:17:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a616c903-6d3e-cf84-8afb-ade48d5ca68f@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0RUHxcpyUJU5bpd8nqpm0Sqhy4aJaoh7K9jVn8zJC6aQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/9/2019 6:08 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 3:59 PM Shenhar, Talel <talel@amazon•com> wrote:
>> On 9/9/2019 4:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> Its not that something will get broken. its error event detector for POS
>> events which allows seeing bad accesses to registers.
>>
>> What is the general rule of which configs to put under select and which
>> under defconfig?
>>
>> I was thinking that "general" SoC support is good under select - those
>> things that we always want.
> I generally want as little as possible to be selected, basically only
> things that are required for linking the kernel and booting it without
> potentially destroying the hardware.
>
> In particular, I want most drivers to be enabled as loadable modules
> if possible. When you have general-purpose distributions support
> your platform, there is no need to have this module built-in while
> running on a different chip, even if you always want to load the
> module when it's running on yours.
>
>> And specific features, e.g. RAID support or features that supported only
>> on specific HW shall go under defconfig.
>>
>> Similar, I see ARCH_LAYERSCAPE selecting EDAC_SUPPORT.
> I think this was done to avoid a link failure. It's also possible that this
> is a mistake and just did not get caught in review.
>
> Arnd
I see.
Will remove this from v2.
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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
2019-09-09 13:58 ` Shenhar, Talel
2019-09-09 15:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-09-10 6:17 ` Shenhar, Talel [this message]
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