Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: Make rpmsg sample selectable

[Suman Anna]

On 05/06/2016 05:15 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Fri 06 May 12:25 PDT 2016, Suman Anna wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> On 05/06/2016 01:06 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>>> rpmsg is not user selectable so the rpmsg sample should not depend on
>>> it, as this limits the possibility of compiling the sample client
>>> without any other clients.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  samples/Kconfig | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/samples/Kconfig b/samples/Kconfig
>>> index d54f28c6dc5e..61a251e579ed 100644
>>> --- a/samples/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/samples/Kconfig
>>> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ config SAMPLE_KDB
>>>  
>>>  config SAMPLE_RPMSG_CLIENT
>>>  	tristate "Build rpmsg client sample -- loadable modules only"
>>> -	depends on RPMSG && m
>>> +	select RPMSG
>>> +	depends on m
>>
>> Well, I believe this has to do with the fact that we also need to have a
>> remoteproc driver enabled, as you cannot have the sample running by
>> itself. A remoteproc driver implementing RPMSG would select it, and then
>> this sample can be enabled. In fact, I follow this for all rpmsg bus
>> drivers.
>>
> 
> That does sound backwards though. Remoteproc provides means to control
> the life cycle of your remote processor and establish (among other
> things) the virtio channels for e.g. rpmsg, but it certainly does not
> depend on rpmsg.

True, but the boot of a remote processor that supports virtio devices is
automatic only when you have the virtio_rpmsg_bus probed because of
the link between remoteproc_virtio and virtio_rpmsg_bus.

> 
> As far as I can see there's 8 other types of virtio services supported
> and I presume we're supposed to select those based on the device's need.
> 
> 
> But based on this I believe the correct solution is not to fix the
> sample but to make RPMSG selectable in itself.

Yeah, agreed.

regards
Suman