Hi Arnd,
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:37 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:07 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Renesas ARM defconfig updates for v5.9
> >
> > - Refresh shmobile_defconfig for v5.8-rc1
> > - Enable additional support for Renesas platforms to
> > shmobile_defconfig, multi_v7_defconfig, and the arm64 defconfig.
>
> As you write on one of the commits
>
> "All of the above are modular, except for Ethernet support (HDMI Audio
> support is an optional feature of the modular ADV7511 driver)."
>
> I'm starting to see some demand for making more drivers loadable modules
> that are traditionally built-in. Can you give a more specific reason why
> this one (and I guess CONFIG_RAVB next to it) should not a loadable module?
We tend to make Ethernet built-in, to ease testing using nfsroot.
If that is no longer desirable, I guess we'll have to improve our initramfs
skills ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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