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

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 15/05/2026 12:54, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 4/29/26 5:09 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 29/04/2026 11:23, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>> On 4/28/26 7:32 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> The interconnect drivers for Qualcomm SoC Network-on-Chip are covering a
>>>> basic or fundamental SoC feature: bandwidth management between internal
>>>> SoC blocks.  SoC can boot without these, but power management or
>>>> performance will be affected.  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'.
>>>
>>> I'd say let's make them all `default ARCH_QCOM` - all of these drivers
>>> are required to boot (minus the OSM_L3 driver which is "only" highly
>>> desired, so that your CPU's bus isn't heavily bottlenecked)
>>
>> So the few of them should not be a module? That's what you want to say?
> 
> I'm saying that if you only want to shoot yourself in the foot and not
> in the face, you can make them modules
> 
> But the L3 driver is required to make the caches run at a reasonable
> speed, so that they don't bottleneck the rest of the system's mem
> bandwidth

okidoki, so I will mark all as default built-in as you said, including
the OSM_L3, based on your explanation.

Best regards,
Krzysztof