[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: enable QoriQ dependencies as modules

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 4:04 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The arm64 port adopts a single image policy, and therefore has a single
> defconfig that should produce a kernel that can boot on any platform.
> Given the shared nature, we typically enable tristate Kconfig options
> as modules, unless there is a good reason to enable it as a builtin.
>
> In the case of commit 97c1ed02f765bc89 ("arm64: defconfig: Enable PHY
> devices used on QorIQ boards"), this is not really the case, and the
> various options are enabled as builtins as a convenience for the NXP
> developers that actually work on such boards. This pulls in other
> dependencies, such as CRYPTO_AES and CRYPTO_ECB (for MICROSEMI_PHY),
> which themselves pull in other pieces of the crypto stack.
>
> Since all the options that this commit enables are tristate, let's
> switch them all to =m
>
> Fixes: 97c1ed02f765bc89 ("arm64: defconfig: Enable PHY devices used on QorIQ boards")
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

I assume it's sufficient to apply this in linux-5.9 rather than 5.8, right?

      Arnd