Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/6] rapidio: move Kconfig menu definition to subsystem

[Alex Bounine <alex.bou9@gmail.com>]

Acked-by: Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@gmail.com>


On 2018-07-31 10:29 AM, Alexei Colin wrote:
> Resending the patchset from prior submission:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/30/911
> 
> The only change are the Cc tags in all patches now include the mailing
> lists for all affected architectures, and patch 1/6 (which adds the menu
> item to RapdidIO subsystem Kconfig) is CCed to all maintainers who are
> getting this cover letter. The cover letter has been updated with
> explanations to points raised in the feedback.
> 
> 
> 
> The top-level Kconfig entry for RapidIO subsystem is currently
> duplicated in several architecture-specific Kconfig files. This set of
> patches does two things:
> 
> 1. Move the Kconfig menu definition into the RapidIO subsystem and
> remove the duplicate definitions from arch Kconfig files.
> 
> 2. Enable RapidIO Kconfig menu entry for arm and arm64 architectures,
> where it was not enabled before. I tested that subsystem and drivers
> build successfully for both architectures, and tested that the modules
> load on a custom arm64 Qemu model.
> 
> For all architectures, RapidIO menu should be offered when either:
> (1) The platform has a PCI bus (which host a RapidIO module on the bus).
> (2) The platform has a RapidIO IP block (connected to a system bus, e.g.
> AXI on ARM). In this case, 'select HAS_RAPIDIO' should be added to the
> 'config ARCH_*' menu entry for the SoCs that offer the IP block.
> 
> Prior to this patchset, different architectures used different criteria:
> * powerpc: (1) and (2)
> * mips: (1) and (2) after recent commit into next that added (2):
>    https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2018-07/msg00596.html
>    fc5d988878942e9b42a4de5204bdd452f3f1ce47
>    491ec1553e0075f345fbe476a93775eabcbc40b6
> * x86: (1)
> * arm,arm64: none (RapidIO menus never offered)
> 
> This set of architectures are the ones that implement support for
> RapidIO as system bus. On some platforms RapidIO can be the only system
> bus available replacing PCI/PCIe.  As it is done now, RapidIO is
> configured in "Bus Options" (x86/PPC) or "Bus Support" (ARMs) sub-menu
> and from system configuration option it should be kept this way.
> Current location of RAPIDIO configuration option is familiar to users of
> PowerPC and x86 platforms, and is similarly available in some ARM
> manufacturers kernel code trees. (Alex Bounine)
> 
> HAS_RAPIDIO is not enabled unconditionally, because HAS_RAPIDIO option
> is intended for SOCs that have built in SRIO controllers, like TI
> KeyStoneII or FPGAs. Because RapidIO subsystem core is required during
> RapidIO port driver initialization, having separate option allows us to
> control available build options for RapidIO core and port driver (bool
> vs.  tristate) and disable module option if port driver is configured as
> built-in. (Alex Bounine)
> 
> Responses to feedback from prior submission (thanks for the reviews!):
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-July/593347.html
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-July/593349.html
> 
> Changelog:
>    * Moved Kconfig entry into RapidIO subsystem instead of duplicating
> 
> In the current patchset, I took the approach of adding '|| PCI' to the
> depends in the subsystem. I did try the alterantive approach mentioned
> in the reviews for v1 of this patch, where the subsystem Kconfig does
> not add a '|| PCI' and each per-architecture Kconfig has to add a
> 'select HAS_RAPIDIO if PCI' and SoCs with IP blocks have to also add
> 'select HAS_RAPIDIO'. This works too but requires each architecture's
> Kconfig to add the line for RapidIO (whereas current approach does not
> require that involvement) and also may create a false impression that
> the dependency on PCI is strict.
> 
> We appreciate the suggestion for also selecting the RapdiIO subsystem for
> compilation with COMPILE_TEST, but hope to address it in a separate
> patchset, localized to the subsystem, since it will need to change
> depends on all drivers, not just on the top level, and since this
> patch now spans multiple architectures.
> 
> Alexei Colin (6):
>    rapidio: define top Kconfig menu in driver subtree
>    x86: factor out RapidIO Kconfig menu
>    powerpc: factor out RapidIO Kconfig menu entry
>    mips: factor out RapidIO Kconfig entry
>    arm: enable RapidIO menu in Kconfig
>    arm64: enable RapidIO menu in Kconfig
> 
>   arch/arm/Kconfig        |  2 ++
>   arch/arm64/Kconfig      |  2 ++
>   arch/mips/Kconfig       | 11 -----------
>   arch/powerpc/Kconfig    | 13 +------------
>   arch/x86/Kconfig        |  8 --------
>   drivers/rapidio/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
>   6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>