Re: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable: Make IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_DART invisible

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Robin,

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2022-09-27 14:36, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > There is no point in asking the user about both "Apple DART Formats" and
> > "Apple DART IOMMU Support", as the former is useless without the latter,
> > and the latter auto-selects the former.
> >
> > Fixes: 745ef1092bcfcf3b ("iommu/io-pgtable: Move Apple DART support to its own file")
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Should IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_LPAE and IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_ARMV7S be made
> > invisible, too?
> > Are there users that do not select them?
>
> The aim was for formats to be independently selectable for COMPILE_TEST
> coverage. The Arm formats are manually selectable for the sake of their
> runtime self-tests, which are self-contained, but since DART format
> doesn't do anything by itself I'd agree there's no need to prompt when
> !COMPILE_TEST here.

IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_LPAE and IOMMU_IO_PGTABLE_ARMV7S are
selected by other symbols that can be enabled when compile-testing, so
the tests can still be enabled in those cases, too

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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