[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: build INTERCONNECT_QCOM_SM6115 as module

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 01:12:15AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 23:02, Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On 4/9/24 20:27, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > Enable CONFIG_INTERCONNECT_QCOM_SM6115 as module to enable the
> > > interconnect driver for the SoC used on Qualcomm Robotics RB2 board.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> >
> > =y for console?
> 
> I think with pinctrl being set to m it won't reach the console anyway.
> And earlycon should work w/o ICC driver if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> Several other Qualcomm platforms also have interconnects built as
> modules in defconfig. I really suppose that we should move all such
> drivers to =m and force using initrd. But this sounds like a topic for
> plumbers.
> 

That currently does not work very well, because if you probe defer the
UART into the future e.g. systemd will open /dev/console before it
exist - with no interest in reopening that later.

So, if you care about UART, that is suboptimal.

Resolve this, and I'd be happy to see them all go =m.

Regards,
Bjorn