Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: mediatek: Restore PINCTRL_MT8189 to tristate

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

On 5/29/26 12:02, Justin Yeh wrote:
> Under the GKI + vendor_dlkm model, vendor-specific pinctrl cannot be
> built into the GKI vmlinux. Upstream's recent switch of PINCTRL_MT8189
> to bool prevents building as a loadable module, which breaks DDK module
> usage. Restore tristate so MT8189 pinctrl can be packaged as a kernel
> module in vendor_dlkm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Yeh <justin.yeh@mediatek.com>

The MODULE_LICENSE change shall come before this one.

Besides - since there's no problem in having the pinctrl drivers as module for
MT8189, I imagine that this is analogously true for all (or most of) the others.

Looks like getting those to build as modules is trivial, too - so, can you at
this point please do the same for all of the MediaTek pinctrl drivers that are
trivial to enable as tristate?

P.S.: After reordering the commits, this one is
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>

Thanks,
Angelo

> ---
>   drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig
> index 4819617d9368..a75434e7e989 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig
> @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ config PINCTRL_MT8188
>   	  map specific eint which doesn't have real gpio pin.
>   
>   config PINCTRL_MT8189
> -        bool "MediaTek MT8189 pin control"
> +        tristate "MediaTek MT8189 pin control"
>           depends on OF
>           depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
>           default ARM64 && ARCH_MEDIATEK