RE: [PATCH] gpio: vf610: allow disabling the vf610 driver

From: Peng Fan
Date: Thu Jan 11 2024 - 19:44:22 EST


Thanks Linus for Ccing me.

> Subject: [PATCH] gpio: vf610: allow disabling the vf610 driver
>
> The vf610 gpio driver is enabled by default for all i.MX machines, without any
> option to disable it in a board-specific config file.
>
> Most i.MX chipsets have no hardware for this driver. Change the default to
> enable GPIO_VF610 for SOC_VF610 and disable it otherwise.
>
> Add a text description after the bool type, this makes the driver selectable by
> make config etc. i.MX chips other than SOC_VF610 can now enable the driver
> from their board config.

This will break i.MX8QM,DXL,ULP/i.MX93 boot. You could add text description
to make it selectable, but please not drop def y. Or you need update defconfig.

Thanks,
Peng.

>
> Fixes: 30a35c07d9e9 ("gpio: vf610: drop the SOC_VF610 dependency for
> GPIO_VF610")
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig index
> 1301cec94f12..353af1a4d0ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> @@ -711,7 +711,8 @@ config GPIO_UNIPHIER
> Say yes here to support UniPhier GPIOs.
>
> config GPIO_VF610
> - def_bool y
> + bool "VF610 GPIO support"
> + default y if SOC_VF610
> depends on ARCH_MXC
> select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
> help
> --
> 2.39.2