[PATCH] cpuidle: big.LITTLE: add MCPM dependency

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 07/14/2014 01:23 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 662322fcb6d ("cpuidle: big.LITTLE: Add ARCH_EXYNOS entry in config")
> made it possible for the big-little cpuidle driver to run on exynos,
> which may or may not include MCPM support at compile time, so we
> run into a link error when it is disabled:
>
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `bl_enter_powerdown':
> :(.text+0x1889a0): undefined reference to `mcpm_cpu_powered_up'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `bl_powerdown_finisher':
> :(.text+0x1889e8): undefined reference to `mcpm_set_entry_vector'
> :(.text+0x1889ec): undefined reference to `mcpm_cpu_suspend'
>
> This adds an explicit dependency to CONFIG_MCPM to avoid that
> case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Chander Kashyap <chander.kashyap at linaro.org>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
> ---
> I believe the broken commit is only present in the samsung/for-next
> tree (through v3.17-next/cpuidle-exynos), so it should be fixed there.
>
> On a side note, I wonder if we should have platform dependencies at
> all, or just the MCPM dependency by itself.
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
> index 2f6b33ea6e08..459b7c91407a 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config ARM_ARMADA_370_XP_CPUIDLE
>   config ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUIDLE
>   	bool "Support for ARM big.LITTLE processors"
>   	depends on ARCH_VEXPRESS_TC2_PM || ARCH_EXYNOS
> +	depends on MCPM

Why do we want to depend on MCPM ? If I want to enable the cpuidle 
driver, the Kconfig should select the dependencies instead of letting 
the user to figure out what dependency is missing in order to enable the 
cpuidle option, no ?

+	select MCPM

>   	select ARM_CPU_SUSPEND
>   	select CPU_IDLE_MULTIPLE_DRIVERS
>   	help
>


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