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

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 5/15/26 1:11 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!

Konrad