[PATCH 3/3] interconnect: qcom: Make important drivers default

Konrad Dybcio konrad.dybcio at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Apr 29 02:23:14 PDT 2026


On 4/28/26 7:32 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The interconnect drivers for Qualcomm SoC Network-on-Chip are covering a
> basic or fundamental SoC feature: bandwidth management between internal
> SoC blocks.  SoC can boot without these, but power management or
> performance will be affected.  These drivers do not represent any sort
> of buses visible to the board designers/configurators, thus they should
> be always enabled, regardless how SoC is used in the final board.
> 
> Kernel configuration should not ask users choice of drivers when that
> choice is obvious and known to the developers that answer should be
> 'yes' or 'module'.

I'd say let's make them all `default ARCH_QCOM` - all of these drivers
are required to boot (minus the OSM_L3 driver which is "only" highly
desired, so that your CPU's bus isn't heavily bottlenecked)

Konrad



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