Re: [PATCH RFC 12/13] dmaengine: sdxi: Add Kconfig and Makefile

[Nathan Lynch <nathan.lynch@amd.com>]

Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> writes:

> On Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:48:35 -0500
> Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay <devnull+nathan.lynch.amd.com@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Nathan Lynch <nathan.lynch@amd.com>
>> 
>> Add SDXI Kconfig that includes debug and unit test options in addition
>> to the usual tristate. SDXI_DEBUG seems necessary because
>> DMADEVICES_DEBUG makes dmatest too verbose.
>> 
>> One goal is to keep the bus-agnostic portions of the driver buildable
>> without PCI(_MSI), in case non-PCI SDXI implementations come along
>> later.
>> 
>> Co-developed-by: Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan.lynch@amd.com>
> It's up to the dma maintainer, but personally and for subsystems I
> do maintain this approach of putting the build files in at the end
> is not something I'd accept.
>
> The reason being that it leads to issues in earlier patches being
> hidden with stuff not well separated.  I'd much rather see the driver
> built up so that it builds at each step with each new patch
> adding additional functionality.  Also avoids things like comments
> on the build dependencies in patch descriptions earlier in the series.
> They become clear as the code is with the patch.

Thanks for looking over the whole series. I'll plan on reorganizing it
according to your suggestions unless Vinod expresses a different
preference.


>> +ccflags-$(CONFIG_SDXI_DEBUG) += -DDEBUG
>
> What does this actually do?  More modern drivers rarely
> do this any more because we have nice facilities like dynamic debug.

Yeah after reviewing the dynamic debug doc I think we can get rid of
SDXI_DEBUG. Thanks.