Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] soc: samsung: change SOC_SAMSUNG default config logic

From: Will McVicker
Date: Tue Sep 21 2021 - 13:46:07 EST


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 1:19 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>
> > On 20/09/2021 21:03, Will McVicker wrote:
> > > Switch the default logic to enable SOC_SAMSUNG and it's sub-configs to
> > > be enabled by default via "default y if ARCH_EXYNOS" versus being
> > > selected by the ARCH_EXYNOS config directly. This allows vendors to
> > > disable these configs if they wish and provides additional flexibility
> > > to modularize them in the presence of a generic kernel.
> >
> > This is not true. Vendors cannot disable these options as they are not
> > visible.
>
> Good point, well made.
>
> > Although I understand that Arnd prefers this way and I do not
> > object it, but your explanation is incorrect.

Thanks Krzysztof for the reviews! I'm sorry I missed the whole "hidden
configs" part. I'll upload the series to include the fix that refactos
the Samsung SoC drivers menuconfig which will address that and allow
one to enable/disable those configs. I'm going to hold off though
until we hash out the rest of the discussion in the cover letter
email.

Thanks,
Will

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