RE: [RFC PATCH v1] pinctrl: imx8m: kconfig: Depends on SOC_IMX8M

[Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>]

> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] pinctrl: imx8m: kconfig: Depends on
> SOC_IMX8M
> 
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 1:02 PM Francesco Dolcini
> <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Change PINCTRL_IMX8M* dependency from just ARCH_MXC to
> SOC_IMX8M,
> > likewise is done for other PINCTRL_IMX* kconfig. This avoid polluting
> > the config when SOC_IMX8M is not enabled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > A similar change would be needed for drivers/clk/imx/Kconfig, in
> > addition to that the other pinctrl are selected by the SOC (config
> > SOC_IMX7D -> select PINCTRL_IMX7D), while this is not true for IMX8M
> > and these options.
> >
> > Not sure what should we do exactly, therefore the RFC tag, I stumbled
> > on this while slimming down the imx_v6_v7_defconfig for my own needs,
> > and after disabling SOC_IMX8M all these options were still enabled.
> 
> No comments for 20 days from the maintainers so resend it as non-RFC, if
> the maintainers have no comments I guess we apply it and see what
> happens?

Initially SOC_IMX8M* was introduced for some driver under drivers/soc/imx/
for i.MX8M. But it should be fine to let PINCTRL_IMX8M* depends on
SOC_IMX8M.

Regards,
Peng.

> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij