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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: alpine: select AL_POS
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 12:17 PM Shenhar, Talel <talel@amazon.com> wrote:
> On 9/9/2019 12:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 11:14 AM Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> >> index 4778c77..bd86b15 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> >> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ config ARCH_SUNXI
> >> config ARCH_ALPINE
> >> bool "Annapurna Labs Alpine platform"
> >> select ALPINE_MSI if PCI
> >> + select AL_POS
> >> help
> >> This enables support for the Annapurna Labs Alpine
> >> Soc family.
> > Generally I think this kind of thing should go into the defconfig
> > rather than being hard-selected. There might be users that
> > want to not enable the driver.
>
> The reason for selecting it is because this is a driver that we will
> always want for ARCH_ALPINE.

Can you put the exact requirement (other than "we want this")
in the changelog text then? It's still not clear to me what breaks
without this driver.

Arnd

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