Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm64: defconfig: Add VeriSilicon GPIO driver

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM Nikolaos Pasaloukos
<nikolaos.pasaloukos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/02/2025 15:25, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>
> > On 12/02/2025 14:46, Nikolaos Pasaloukos wrote:
> >> Add support for VeriSilicon GPIO controller.
> > You enable not add support, but still the main question is: Why? Which
> > devices needs it? Why this cannot be a module?
>
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> Thank you for your fast review and apologies for the typo. I forgot to
> mention on the commit message but I have mentioned in the cover letter
> that the driver is needed for the Blaize BLZP1600 CB2 board which is
> already supported on v6.14. I will fix the commit message on V2.
>
> This driver enables support (controls) for multiple peripherals on
> the board, like Ethernet for NFS boot, SD and eMMC to load modules from
> these media. Without this driver build in the kernel, it will be hard to
> mount a filesystem and load modules.
>

That's alright but typically you'd want to have something like:

default y if ARCH_BLAIZE

in the driver's Kconfig entry.

Bart