[PATCH 5/6] arm64, defconfig: Enable PCI

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Sep 25 03:45:20 PDT 2014


On Thursday 25 September 2014 10:35:45 Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:40:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 September 2014 18:10:48 Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > The intention is not to have a second definition, instead this should
> > > > enable the default value just for arm64. Thus I put it to
> > > > arch/arm64/Kconfig. Otherwise it would be enabled per default on all
> > > > archs.
> > 
> > I don't think other architectures actually see the PCI symbol that is
> > defined in the arm64 Kconfig file, but I might be wrong.
> 
> Other archs wouldn't see the symbols in arch/arm64/Kconfig.

Ok.

> > > > We could have used select in config ARM64, but I tried to avoid using
> > > > select due to the dependency issue and instead implement this with
> > > > default-y/depends-on. Doing so it can be manually disabled too.
> > 
> > How about adding a new symbol like
> > 
> > config ARM64_PCI
> >       def_bool PCI
> >       select PCI_MSI
> 
> How is this different from just selecting PCI_MSI in config PCI in
> arch/arm64/Kconfig? I don't see what another symbol brings.

That suggestion was just in case I was wrong above. If the symbol
is indeed hidden elsewhere, we don't need it.

	Arnd



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