[PATCH] net: dwc_eth_qos: add Kconfig option to select supported configuration

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Jun 10 23:35:22 CEST 2020


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:56:40PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 6/10/20 10:54 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:46:23PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> On 6/10/20 10:11 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>>>>>> You mean be more like barebox and Linux where the board-specific stuff
> >>>>>>> is kicked up one level and we have a more generic binary?  I don't know
> >>>>>>> and there's so much work that would be required before having to move
> >>>>>>> this from a Kconfig choice to just Kconfig options I don't see that as
> >>>>>>> being a relevant question here.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Or did I misunderstand the question?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> More like automatically have a Kconfig option generate it's _SPL and
> >>>>>> _TPL variant.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ah.  Well, that is rephrasing my first question.  Would it ever make
> >>>>> sense to have more than one of these enabled?
> >>>>
> >>>> For some sort of universal SPL, maybe ?
> >>>
> >>> So no, there's not a reason today then and it should be a choice.
> >>
> >> Can you provide some more detailed explanation why we shouldn't generate
> >> _SPL and _TPL variants of Kconfig entries for all Kconfig entries ? It
> >> would make things much simpler and permit configuring SPL/TPL the same
> >> way U-Boot is configured, with their own set of options.
> > 
> > In the context of this particular thread?  I don't see how it's helpful
> > to say 3 times that we're in fact building for Tegra or STM32 or SoCFPGA
> > when you can't build something that runs on more than one of those.
> 
> In general.
> 
> Here I can imagine it is possible to build SoCFPGA+STM32 universal SD
> card image in fact.

So that's the case I brought up at first and you said no to.  I don't
see that in the foreseeable future but I don't feel so strongly about
making this config area tidy enough to argue the point.  So fine, leave
it as separate options, the default y if ... is reasonable enough to
ensure we get functional builds.

-- 
Tom
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