Re: [PATCH v5 11/17] qcom_minidump: Register ramoops region with minidump

[Pavan Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com>]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 01:46:12AM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> Register all the pstore frontend with minidump, so that they can
> be dumped as default Linux minidump region to be collected on
> SoC where minidump is enabled.
> 
> Helper functions is written in separate file and built along with
> the minidump driver, since it is client of minidump and also call
> it at appropriate place from minidump probe so that they always
> get registered.
> 
> While at it also rename the out minidump module object name during
> build as qcom_apss_minidump which basically depicts as Qualcomm
> Application processor subsystem minidump.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig                 |  1 +
>  drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile                |  3 +-
>  drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_minidump.c         |  4 ++
>  drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.h | 10 ++++
>  5 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_ramoops_minidump.h
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
> index 4b36d46807bc..b3977f1687d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
> @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ config QCOM_MINIDUMP
>  	tristate "QCOM APSS Minidump driver"
>  	depends on ARCH_QCOM || COMPILE_TEST
>  	depends on QCOM_SMEM
> +	depends on PSTORE

Can't we make QC minidump available without PSTORE? PSTORE is another
cllient for minidump, so other clients can still use minidump right?
Where is this hard dependency coming from?

Thanks,
Pavan