Re: [PATCH] pci: controller: tegra194: remove dependency on Tegra194 SoC

From: Manivannan Sadhasivam
Date: Mon Jan 05 2026 - 03:43:40 EST


On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 10:58:15AM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
>
> On 23/12/2025 06:45, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 11:25:30AM +0100, Francesco Lavra wrote:
> >
> > + Tegra maintainers
> >
> > > This driver runs (for both host and endpoint operation) also on other Tegra
> > > SoCs (e.g. Tegra234).
> > > Replace the Kconfig dependency on ARCH_TEGRA_194_SOC with a more generic
> > > dependency on ARCH_TEGRA; in addition, amend the Kconfig help text to
> > > reflect the fact that this driver is no longer exclusive to Tegra194.
> > >
> >
> > I vaguely remember asking about this a while back during some other patch review
> > and I don't remember what we concluded.
> > > Thierry, Jon, thoughts?
>
> So ARCH_TEGRA means that this can be enabled for the legacy 32-bit Tegra
> devices as well as the current 64-bit Tegra devices (such as Tegra194).
> Given that this driver is only used for Tegra194 and Tegra234, it seems it
> would be better to only enable this for Tegra194 and Tegra234 instead of any
> Tegra.
>

The dependency means, whenever someone tries to enable PCIE_TEGRA194_HOST,
ARCH_TEGRA should be enabled. So as long as someone not trying to enable
PCIE_TEGRA194_HOST for 32bit Tegra systems, ARCH_TEGRA should work fine and
PCIE_TEGRA194_HOST is not selected by arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig. So I
don't see any blocker with this patch. In fact, many other archs do the same.

But I don't like extending the Kconfig with per SoC dependency as it won't
scale.

- Mani

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