[GIT PULL 1/2] Renesas ARM defconfig updates for v5.9

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:37 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:07 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Renesas ARM defconfig updates for v5.9
> >
> >   - Refresh shmobile_defconfig for v5.8-rc1
> >   - Enable additional support for Renesas platforms to
> >     shmobile_defconfig, multi_v7_defconfig, and the arm64 defconfig.
>
> As you write on one of the commits
>
>    "All of the above are modular, except for Ethernet support (HDMI Audio
>     support is an optional feature of the modular ADV7511 driver)."
>
> I'm starting to see some demand for making more drivers loadable modules
> that are traditionally built-in. Can you give a more specific reason why
> this one (and I guess CONFIG_RAVB next to it) should not a loadable module?

We tend to make Ethernet built-in, to ease testing using nfsroot.
If that is no longer desirable, I guess we'll have to improve our initramfs
skills ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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