[PATCH RESEND v11 10/13] um: nommu: a work around for MMU dependency to PCI driver
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Sep 23 10:13:47 PDT 2025
On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 17:42 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > currently, drivers/pci/Kconfig (CONFIG_PCI) marks as depends on MMU,
> > so we cannot select it when CONFIG_MMU=n.
>
> That is a fairly recent change, see commit 8fe743b5eba0abfb ("PCI:
> Add CONFIG_MMU dependency") in v6.16-rc1. As this is not a "hard"
> dependency, perhaps it should be reverted, iff you are willing to take
> care of the casual breakage?
Why though? UML with PCI can't really be a functional thing, only a
testing thing, and testing PCI on !MMU when that is actually impossible
in non-simulation is pointless?
johannes
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