This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: defconfig: build imx-sdma as a module to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-defconfig-build-imx-sdma-as-a-module.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f41fcafdc97dd39b1d018cc4645e6ea8b391e7c9 Author: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 28 17:00:56 2022 +0100 arm64: defconfig: build imx-sdma as a module [ Upstream commit e95622289f263662240544a9f0009b25c19e64d4 ] This avoids firmware load error and sysfs fallback reported as follows: [ 0.199448] imx-sdma 302c0000.dma-controller: Direct firmware load for imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin failed with error -2 [ 0.199487] imx-sdma 302c0000.dma-controller: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig index 545197bc0501..4972a81d40d6 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y CONFIG_DMA_BCM2835=y CONFIG_DMA_SUN6I=m CONFIG_FSL_EDMA=y -CONFIG_IMX_SDMA=y +CONFIG_IMX_SDMA=m CONFIG_K3_DMA=y CONFIG_MV_XOR=y CONFIG_MV_XOR_V2=y