[PATCH 3/3] interconnect: qcom: Make important drivers default
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzysztof.kozlowski at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Apr 29 08:09:16 PDT 2026
On 29/04/2026 11:23, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> 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)
So the few of them should not be a module? That's what you want to say?
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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