Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: provide a top-level switch for Microchip platforms

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 27/02/2026 11:15, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, at 10:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 27/02/2026 09:51, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think this is fixable, that's why I wrote that I accept the
>>> negative impact because I like the cleanup more.
>>
>> Agreed. I remember when we split up the ethernet drivers into per-vendor
>> subdirectories and had to add 'default y' to each one in 88f07484ccdf
>> ("drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig options"). Changing the
>> default to 'n' would be a regression now as much as it was then, so it's
>> not something we can expect to do more easily in the future.
>>
>> If the Microchip maintainers think the change will cause too much
>> extra work, we can leave the current version forever, otherwise lets
>> apply it for 7.1.
> 
> Here's the previous discussion when this was added not too long ago:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250811122053.4bfyoefln7wpz2a4@DEN-DL-M70577/
> 
> Daniel is probably the one that "needs" to answer this, I think the
> lan969x is added recently enough for this to not be particularly
> disruptive.

I don't get arguments there. The policy is one ARCH per vendor, so why
exactly upstream would like to "having more granular control with
separate"? That's downstream or vendor wishlist, not upstream.


Best regards,
Krzysztof