From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13AED29AB02 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772187326; cv=none; b=XtDDd8kkQeNDdKIGH3SMmyz1Hq7IdTqsymYeW3MdbmmjCyxRVNZCaKOE2eaXQR22ZGOerl/OB+ZW+Qp4z7XZwI7GHCMExjdrCckrUs2AShxMpdwTHuehEENz0IuHnSk4WWUuvxwaTSW3GpBDE8G3sBs+j5CKjd++bsZuFuIufKw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772187326; c=relaxed/simple; bh=HhnoaMasZZyl4yTSPKKX7UeOHAXyDdKHee+4Df8lMDo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=sXyFOZO/DBCq3zQEWPRCUWUp/OLzOnTTIxOmRcg/+9uWe4Qv0HDTvGAuJdeYkDbKDNAF+yNG9jgXfPtAgzGVjtg6th8DxBnGt9SXZA9SzoH9YBL5K3aqj4wBdr62nHA7NehHDyydbL4jtRItbrQBitTZo093tI8tyTjtl6N9CRE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=mG3bBuZc; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="mG3bBuZc" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 09533C2BC86; Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:15:22 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1772187325; bh=HhnoaMasZZyl4yTSPKKX7UeOHAXyDdKHee+4Df8lMDo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=mG3bBuZcnBSPyfTnL3qPdrwkIHZOTZiZ/emwbsaBuLDwVFO8gUx08qlhHf25tXhrN iKONE3fEUE9p9X1UJsIyfp0aLkeaWyU7pZUWhfKP938ESCPRBzQ0u+1oX5sjG6EY6I rpGWQpeR+XyBhjn+0gJXTJYCaxHo6ULE9lr3D9UloipBqMa6NoxjmEbvBdaHsEluy5 /9pr8V3xswGZVtY4+m4uFnLD8Jj2zACItROg6JVxnvWYRLexCbcdSIzwVJMWUfftyh RqQL8m7G1fefKdOK9yvEjKXv3DAmbNizjM1j/RB7HHOQfM6V/CJmMBkSWkBJNsb5rI 2w0VXwPdUVMvg== Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:15:20 +0000 From: Conor Dooley To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Bartosz Golaszewski , Bartosz Golaszewski , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Nicolas Ferre , Claudiu Beznea , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robert.marko@sartura.hr, daniel.machon@microchip.com, Steen.Hegelund@microchip.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: provide a top-level switch for Microchip platforms Message-ID: <20260227-wolverine-slogan-7af0661f6e44@spud> References: <20260226143615.65788-1-bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com> <84da053d-97d5-4d07-8e76-b162a5b23d2a@kernel.org> <10bb25d3-2f46-4b62-affb-31257d51e24f@app.fastmail.com> <9132501f-76e9-46c0-839d-bde7246c3883@kernel.org> <244fdbad-0d9f-42bc-a005-5f5ef34d067d@app.fastmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PAx6QxGFekF6HuGj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <244fdbad-0d9f-42bc-a005-5f5ef34d067d@app.fastmail.com> --PAx6QxGFekF6HuGj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, at 10:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > On 27/02/2026 09:51, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:49=E2=80=AFAM Arnd Bergmann = wrote: >=20 > > I don't think this is fixable, that's why I wrote that I accept the > > negative impact because I like the cleanup more. >=20 > Agreed. I remember when we split up the ethernet drivers into per-vendor > subdirectories and had to add 'default y' to each one in 88f07484ccdf > ("drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig options"). Changing the > default to 'n' would be a regression now as much as it was then, so it's > not something we can expect to do more easily in the future. >=20 > If the Microchip maintainers think the change will cause too much > extra work, we can leave the current version forever, otherwise lets > apply it for 7.1. Here's the previous discussion when this was added not too long ago: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250811122053.4bfyoefln7wpz2a4@DEN-DL-M70577/ Daniel is probably the one that "needs" to answer this, I think the lan969x is added recently enough for this to not be particularly disruptive. --PAx6QxGFekF6HuGj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQRh246EGq/8RLhDjO14tDGHoIJi0gUCaaFuuAAKCRB4tDGHoIJi 0sDdAP0a1SfxiBaSqSvGnDiaFsOnK3r5lMRKnynwHxC1q1YlowEAhH4jXdZZwoSA NCbTicsB3WkJBH5tagAyX8Ab11vXVws= =miX3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PAx6QxGFekF6HuGj--