Re: [PATCH 3/4] soc: qcom: Make important drivers default

Konrad Dybcio
2026-04-29T09:06:44Z

On 4/29/26 10:56 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The drivers for Qualcomm SoC components are covering a basic or
> fundamental SoC blocks. Usually they are required for booting or to
> achieve basic expected functionality when running Linux. These drivers
> do not represent any sort of buses visible to the board
> designers/configurators, thus they should be always enabled, regardless
> how SoC is used in the final board.
>
> Kernel configuration should not ask users choice of drivers when that
> choice is obvious and known to the developers that answer should be
> 'yes' or 'module'.
>
> Switch most of the Qualcomm SoC drivers to a default 'yes' or
> 'module' for ARCH_QCOM, to match existing defconfig usage.
>
> This has no impact on arm64 defconfig, arm qcom_defconfig and arm
> multi_v7_defconfig.
>
> The change will however enable by default all drivers for arm or arm64
> COMPILE_TEST builds, whenever ARCH_QCOM is selected, which feels
> logical: if one selects ARCH_QCOM then probably by default wants to
> build test it entirely. Kernels with COMPILE_TEST are not supposed to
> be used for booting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>

Please also add:

QCOM_RMTFS_MEM (required for modem)
QCOM_SPM (cpufreq-adjacent on some platforms)

Konrad