[PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: provide a top-level switch for Microchip platforms

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Feb 27 00:48:43 PST 2026


On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, at 09:42, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> This will surprise all out-of-tree non-defconfig users, because their
>> boards will stop working (drivers depend on ARCH_LAN969X|ARCH_SPARX5
>> which will be now disabled), but I like the consistency.
>>
>
> I'm not following, ARCH_SPARX5 remains enabled in defconfig and
> ARCH_LAN969X was already disabled by default.

Your patch to the in-kernel defconfig is fine, but most users don't
use that but instead have their own defconfig files which they now
need to update.

      Arnd



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