Re: [RFCv1 5/5] arm64/ARM: configs: Change CONFIG_PWM_MESON from m to y

[Anand Moon]

Hi Martin.

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 01:40, Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:17 PM Anand Moon <linux.amoon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> > index c9a867ac32d4..72f6a7dca0d6 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> > @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ CONFIG_MPL3115=m
> >  CONFIG_PWM=y
> >  CONFIG_PWM_BCM2835=m
> >  CONFIG_PWM_CROS_EC=m
> > -CONFIG_PWM_MESON=m
> > +CONFIG_PWM_MESON=y
> some time ago I submitted a similar patch for the 32-bit SoCs
> it turned that that pwm-meson can be built as module because the
> kernel will run without CPU DVFS as long as the clock and regulator
> drivers are returning -EPROBE_DEFER (-517)
>
> did you check whether there's some other problem like some unused
> clock which is being disabled at that moment?
> I've been hunting weird problems in the past where it turned out that
> changing kernel config bits changed the boot timing - that masked the
> original problem

OK.

>
>
> Martin

Sorry for linking this two separate issue PWM failed and microSD detect failed.
Thanks for the input, I will check if you patch help, I will try to
investigate more why it fails at my end.

Best Regards
-Anand