Re: [PATCH 01/15] irqchip: Allow to compile bcmstb on other platforms

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Maxime,

On 2020-12-14 15:27, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:09PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:

[...]

> > I'm always sceptical of making interrupt controllers user-selectable.
> > Who is going to know that they need to pick that one?
> >
> > I'd be much more in favour of directly selecting this symbol
> > from DRM_VC4_HDMI_CEC, since there is an obvious dependency.
>
> It's a bit weird to me that the HDMI CEC support selects it, since that
> interrupt controller is external and here no matter what.

From glancing at the series, I was under the impression that these
controllers were there for the sole benefit of the HDMI controllers.
Is there anything else connected to them?

> Would selecting it from the ARCH_* Kconfig option work for you?

Sure. My only ask is that the low level plumbing is selected without
requiring any user guesswork.

Thanks,

        M.
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