Re: [PATCH 6/6] arm64: defconfig: make Tegra238 and Tegra264 Pinctrl a loadable module

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-04-10T06:37:29Z

On 09/04/2026 15:13, pshete@nvidia.com wrote:
> From: Prathamesh Shete <pshete@nvidia.com>
>
> Building the Pinctrl driver into the kernel image increases its size.

That's obvious.

> These drivers are not required during early boot, build them as a loadable
> module instead to reduce the kernel image size.

So you replace built-in into module?
>
> Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Shete <pshete@nvidia.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> index dd1ac01ee29b..f525670d3b84 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> @@ -711,6 +711,8 @@ CONFIG_PINCTRL_SC8280XP_LPASS_LPI=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_SM8550_LPASS_LPI=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_SM8650_LPASS_LPI=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_SOPHGO_SG2000=y
> +CONFIG_PINCTRL_TEGRA238=m
> +CONFIG_PINCTRL_TEGRA264=m

No, you just added as module. Why do we want them in upstream defconfig?

Standard question, already asked Nvidia more than once.

Best regards,
Krzysztof