Re: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: sort out Kconfig, again

[Daniel Baluta]

Hi Arnd, Pierre,

Thanks for looking at this.

> >>> Thanks Arnd, do you mind sharing your config?
> >>
> >> https://pastebin.com/HRX5xi3R
> >
> > will give it a try, thanks!
> >
> >>> We noticed last week that
> >>> there's a depend/select confusion might be simpler to fix, see
> >>> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/pull/2047/commits
> >>>
> >>> If I look at the first line I see a IMX_DSP=n which looks exactly like
> >>> what we wanted to fix.
> >>
> >> Yes, I think that fix addresses the build warning as well, but looking
> >> more closely I don't think it's what you want: If you do this on
> >> a config that has the IMX_DSP disabled, it would appear to the
> >> user that you have enabled the drivers, but the actual code is still
> >> disabled.
> >
> > Are you sure? we added a select IMX_DSP, so not sure how it can be
> > disabled?
>
> I just tested Arnd's config with the patch we came up with for SOF
> (attached) and it makes the unmet dependency go away and builds fine.
> the problem is really using select IMX_DSP if it can be disabled by
> something else. My proposal looks simpler but I will agree it's not
> necessarily super elegant to move the dependency on IMX_BOX into SOF, so
> no sustained objection from me on Arnd's proposal.
>
> Daniel, this is your part of SOF, please chime in.

I would go in favor of Arnd's patch as it gets rid of exposing
IMX_MBOX into SOF.
The code will be fine even IMX_DSP=n, because the exported functions
used by SOF have dummy implementations in case IMX_DSP is not selected.

One concern is that we could end up in a case where IMX_DSP={y|m} but
IMX_MBOX=n.

Technically this is not possible because IMX_DSP depends on IMX_MBOX. So,
one cannot generate such a .config file from menuconfig interface.

You can add my:

Acked-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxx>