[PATCH] arm64: make ARCH_BCM4908 select ARCH_BCMBCA

William Zhang william.zhang at broadcom.com
Fri Jul 15 10:37:51 PDT 2022



On 07/15/2022 10:17 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 7/13/22 21:58, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> BCA is a big set / family of devices sharing multiple hardware blocks.
>> It covers BCM4908, BCM63xx, BCM68xx devices and more.
>>
>> Most of drivers that depend on ARCH_BCM4908 should actually depend on
>> ARCH_BCMBCA. To make such transition easier, cleaner and breakage-free
>> add a proper "select".
>>
>> Later on - if we decide to keep ARCH_BCM4908 - it may be moved under
>> ARCH_BCMBCA menu. Keeping it may be helpful for limited compiling of DTS
>> files and "default" Kconfig entires. Or we may just decide to drop it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> 
> OK, so in an effort to have a smoother transition of ARCH_BCM4908 towards ARCH_BCMBCA, I am inclined to take this patch right now, put it in a part2 of our recent ARM SoC pull request and try to get it in v5.20-rc1.
> 
> Then William can go ahead and do a treewide s/ARCH_BCM4908/ARCH_BCMBCA/g which we would be queuing up *against* v5.20-rc1 for 5.21. This ought to assure a smooth transition for "make oldconfig".
> 
> Sounds good? If so, William, Kursad, do you want to ack that patch?
> 
Sounds good to me. Thanks Florian!
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