Re: [PATCH] firmware: QCOM interfaces should depend on ARCH_QCOM

On 8/6/26 12:35 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> The various Qualcomm firmware interfaces are only present on Qualcomm
> systems.  Hence add dependencies on ARCH_QCOM, to prevent asking the
> user about them when configuring a kernel without Qualcomm SoC support.
> Make QCOM_PAS invisible instead, as it is already selected by its users
> when needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> ---
> I wondered whether QCOM_SCM should be made invisible, too, as it seems
> to be selected by its users? But apparently commit 5c1a2975d23c51c0
> ("firmware: qcom_scm: Migrate to generic PAS service") in net-next/main
> and soc/for-next made it visible on purpose?

For some context, that commit was part of a series that introduced a
second back-end to the functions that previously only the QCOM_SCM
driver provided ("qcom proprietary TZ interface" vs "what TF-A is
going to provide"), and the author's intention was to make the
former possible to disable

Konrad