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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 6/6] arm64: enable RapidIO menu in Kconfig
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 09:45:44AM -0400, Alexei Colin wrote:
> If I move RapidIO option to drivers/Kconfig, then it won't appear under
> the Bus Options/System Support menu, along with other choices for the
> system bus (PCI, PCMCIA, ISA, TC, ...).

It's not like anyone cares.  And FYI, moving all those to
drivers/Kconfig is osmething I will submit for the next merge window.

> Alex explains above that RapidIO
> may be selected as a system bus on some architectures, and users expect
> it to be in the menu in which it has been for some time now.  What
> problem is the current organization causing?

A "system bus" seems like a rather outdated concept to start with.