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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	Desmond Yan <desmond.yan@broadcom.com>,
	James Hu <james.hu@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:21:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfbb883b-f222-922e-bdf0-3491af14e446@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22c48aaf-21e2-56ab-3f40-e497a69cd936@broadcom.com>

On 2/20/20 4:06 PM, Scott Branden wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> On 2020-02-19 5:04 p.m., Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2/19/20 4:48 PM, Scott Branden wrote:
>>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..c75dfb89a38d
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/drivers/misc/bcm-vk/Kconfig
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>>> +#
>>> +# Broadcom VK device
>>> +#
>>> +config BCM_VK
>>> +    tristate "Support for Broadcom VK Accelerators"
>>> +    depends on PCI_MSI
>>> +    default m
>> Need to justify default m. Normally we don't add drivers as enabled unless
>> they are required for basic (boot) operation.
> Will remove default m as not needed to boot.  Interesting other offload engines misc/ocxl/Kconfig and misc/cxl/Kconfig have default m.

Thanks.

Uh, yes, that is interesting.  They both depend on PPC_POWERNV,
which I know nothing about.

>>> +    help
>>> +      Select this option to enable support for Broadcom
>>> +      VK Accelerators.  VK is used for performing
>>> +      specific video offload processing.  This driver enables
>>> +      userspace programs to access these accelerators via /dev/bcm-vk.N
>>> +      devices.
>>> +
>>> +      If unsure, say N.

-- 
~Randy


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-21  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20  0:48 [PATCH v2 0/7] firmware: add partial read support in request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support Scott Branden
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20  1:22   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-21  0:14     ` Scott Branden
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] test_firmware: add partial read support for request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20  8:42   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-21 18:30     ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22  1:13       ` Scott Branden
2020-02-24  8:08         ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-25 19:11         ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] firmware: test partial file reads of request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] bcm-vk: add bcm_vk UAPI Scott Branden
2020-02-20  7:50   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-21  1:15     ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21  8:34       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-21 18:27         ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21  9:22       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver Scott Branden
2020-02-20  1:04   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-21  0:06     ` Scott Branden
2020-02-21  0:21       ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2020-02-20  7:47   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-21 18:19     ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22  8:02       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-02-23 10:00         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-23 23:55         ` Olof Johansson
2020-02-25 22:37           ` Scott Branden
2020-02-20 10:43   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-21 18:29     ` Scott Branden
2020-04-17 21:49     ` Scott Branden
2020-04-18 11:45       ` Dan Carpenter
2020-04-18 11:47         ` Dan Carpenter
2020-04-18 17:25           ` Scott Branden
2020-02-22 16:44   ` kbuild test robot
2020-02-22 16:44   ` [RFC PATCH] misc: bcm-vk: image_tab[] can be static kbuild test robot
2020-02-20  0:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] MAINTAINERS: bcm-vk: add maintainer for Broadcom VK Driver Scott Branden

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