Re: [PATCH] arm: enable RapidIO config options in Kconfig

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 09:41:26AM -0400, Alexei Colin wrote:
> ARM SoCs with a PCI bus offer the RapiodIO config menu; SoCs with
> RapidIO IP blocks but without a PCI bus, need to add "select
> HAS_RAPIDIO" to the Kconfig entry for that SoC (e.g. ARCH_*).
> 
> HAS_RAPIDIO was chosen over HAVE_RAPIDIO to be consistent with
> other architectures which already define this flag (powerpc).

Is there any reason we can't have the RAPIDIO and HAS_RAPIDIO config
blocks in drivers/rapidio/Kconfig (maybe without the || PCI - see
below), and then have architecture Kconfig files do:

config (ARM or PPC)
	select HAS_RAPIDIO if PCI

or in the case of MIPS:

config MIPS
	...
	select HAS_RAPIDIO

That would avoid duplicating almost identical RAPIDIO and HAS_RAPIDIO
config blocks in architecture Kconfig files.

Why should rapidio be available just because we have PCI selected?  If
it behaves as a PCI add-in card, then why isn't this available for any
architecture with PCI?

What about build coverage - shouldn't RAPIDIO be selectable for (eg)
other architectures via COMPILE_TEST if it's supposed to be generic?

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