Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: provide a top-level switch for Microchip platforms

[Conor Dooley]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, at 10:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 27/02/2026 09:51, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think this is fixable, that's why I wrote that I accept the
> > negative impact because I like the cleanup more.
> 
> Agreed. I remember when we split up the ethernet drivers into per-vendor
> subdirectories and had to add 'default y' to each one in 88f07484ccdf
> ("drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig options"). Changing the
> default to 'n' would be a regression now as much as it was then, so it's
> not something we can expect to do more easily in the future.
> 
> If the Microchip maintainers think the change will cause too much
> extra work, we can leave the current version forever, otherwise lets
> apply it for 7.1.

Here's the previous discussion when this was added not too long ago:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250811122053.4bfyoefln7wpz2a4@DEN-DL-M70577/

Daniel is probably the one that "needs" to answer this, I think the
lan969x is added recently enough for this to not be particularly
disruptive.

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