Re: [RFC PATCH] firmware: scmi: Make SCMI arch independent

On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 03:27:00PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> On heterogenious systems like AMD/Xilinx FPGA there is a need to talk to
> SCMI server from different architectures than ARM that's why remove
> ARM/ARM64 Kconfig dependency with also remove ARM from description and
> rename folder to reflect it.
> From specification perspective only ARM specific transport layers should be
> available on ARM/ARM64 architectures.
> 
> That's why get rid of ARM prefix and description from documentation, file
> names, folder names, MODULE description, module names, Kconfig and
> comments.
> But keep origin Kconfig symbols not to break existing users.
> 
> Hwmon, pinctrl, powercap, regulator, reset, clk and cpufreq scmi drivers
> already miss arm prefix that's why synchronize all of them to be without
> arm prefix.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Likely I missed other locations but I wanted to send this RFC to have a
> discussion about it.
> ---
...
>  drivers/hwmon/Kconfig                                 |  2 +-
...
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> index 2bfbcc033d59..cda0aedb36ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ config SENSORS_ARCTIC_FAN_CONTROLLER
>  	  will be called arctic_fan_controller.
>  
>  config SENSORS_ARM_SCMI
> -	tristate "ARM SCMI Sensors"
> +	tristate "SCMI Sensors"
>  	depends on ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL
>  	depends on THERMAL || !THERMAL_OF
>  	help

I agree in principle, but I don't see why this would have to be done
in a single patch. Also, both the Kconfig file (SENSORS_ARM_SCMI,
ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL) and the driver itself (""ARM SCMI HWMON interface
driver") still reference ARM.

Thanks,
Guenter