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Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2021 08:29:25 +0000
From:   Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: include drivers/firmware/Kconfig
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:50:26AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> Compile-testing drivers that require access to a firmware layer
> fails when that firmware symbol is unavailable. This happened
> twice this week:
> 
>  - My proposed to change to rework the QCOM_SCM firmware symbol
>    broke on ppc64 and others.
> 
>  - The cs_dsp firmware patch added device specific firmware loader
>    into drivers/firmware, which broke on the same set of
>    architectures.
> 
> We should probably do the same thing for other subsystems as well,
> but fix this one first as this is a dependency for other patches
> getting merged.
> 
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
> Cc: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
> Cc: Simon Trimmer <simont@opensource.cirrus.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>

Thanks,
Charles