Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] arm64: Kconfig: Update ARCH_EXYNOS select configs

Lee Jones
2021-09-21T07:09:07Z

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Will McVicker wrote:

> This patch series tries to address the issue of ARCH_EXYNOS force selecting
> a handful of drivers without allowing the vendor to override any of the
> default configs. This takes away from the flexibilty of compiling a generic
> kernel with exynos kernel modules. For example, it doesn't allow vendors to
> modularize these drivers out of the core kernel in order to share a generic
> kernel image across multiple devices that require device-specific kernel
> modules.
>
> To address this without impacting the existing behavior, this series
> switches the default config logic for the offending configs to use "default
> y if ARCH_EXYNOS" versus having ARCH_EXYNOS directly select them. I have
> verified that these patches do not impact the default aarch64 .config.
>
> Will McVicker (4):
> clk: samsung: change COMMON_CLK_SAMSUNG default config logic
> soc: samsung: change SOC_SAMSUNG default config logic
> pinctrl: samsung: change PINCTRL_EXYNOS default config logic
> rtc: change HAVE_S3C_RTC default config logic
>
> arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 7 -------
> drivers/clk/samsung/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/pinctrl/samsung/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/soc/samsung/Kconfig | 4 ++++
> 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

For all patches in the series:

Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

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