On 13/05/2023 19:58, Verma, Achal wrote: > > Hello Krzysztof, > On 5/12/2023 12:53 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >> On 12/05/2023 09:05, Achal Verma wrote: >>> Enable Cadence PCIe controller and pci-j721e drivers to be built as >>> kernel modules. >> >> Why? IOW, who needs them. Please provide rationale in the commit msg. I >> am pretty sure I asked for this... >> > On TI's J7 SOCs, PCIe is composed of PCIe core from Cadence and TI > wrapper. It is desired to have J7 PCIe working on upstream kernel by > default. So to enable this I have pushed these defconfig changes. > > BTW, I am planning to hold this change until PCIe code changes (rest of > the patches in this series) gets merged. > > Please let me know if there are more concern to this. The concerns are that commit msg does not explain this. Please always provide in commit msg answer to "why you are doing this". In case of defconfig the answer to "why" is: "board foo bar with SoC baz uses it". Best regards, Krzysztof
