From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:63339 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751800AbaIYKpd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:45:33 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Robert Richter , Robert Richter , Bjorn Helgaas , Will Deacon , Liviu Dudau , Rob Herring , Sunil Goutham , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] arm64, defconfig: Enable PCI Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:45:20 +0200 Message-ID: <21218217.YUcdQIZ4A8@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <20140925093545.GE10390@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1411573068-12952-1-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org> <3120493.DIoQFCi5Am@wuerfel> <20140925093545.GE10390@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 25 September 2014 10:35:45 Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:40:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 September 2014 18:10:48 Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > The intention is not to have a second definition, instead this should > > > > enable the default value just for arm64. Thus I put it to > > > > arch/arm64/Kconfig. Otherwise it would be enabled per default on all > > > > archs. > > > > I don't think other architectures actually see the PCI symbol that is > > defined in the arm64 Kconfig file, but I might be wrong. > > Other archs wouldn't see the symbols in arch/arm64/Kconfig. Ok. > > > > We could have used select in config ARM64, but I tried to avoid using > > > > select due to the dependency issue and instead implement this with > > > > default-y/depends-on. Doing so it can be manually disabled too. > > > > How about adding a new symbol like > > > > config ARM64_PCI > > def_bool PCI > > select PCI_MSI > > How is this different from just selecting PCI_MSI in config PCI in > arch/arm64/Kconfig? I don't see what another symbol brings. That suggestion was just in case I was wrong above. If the symbol is indeed hidden elsewhere, we don't need it. Arnd