Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: defconfig: Switch SOUND to module

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025, at 15:44, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Sound drivers are not essential to boot boards or mount rootfs,
> therefore in effort to reduce the size of kernel image (and boot images)
> switch the ASoC drivers to modules to decrease the size:
>
>   vmlinux: 152864 kB -> 154528 kB
>   Image: 39391 kB -> 39067 kB
>
> No difference in resulting include/generated/autoconf.h, except making
> modules: SND_SOC_SAMSUNG, SND_SOC_SDCA_OPTIONAL, SND_SOC_APPLE_MCA,
> SND_TIMER, SND_COMPRESS_OFFLOAD, SND_PCM, SND_SOC_SOF_OF and
> SND_DMAENGINE_PCM.
>
> Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> If patches are fine, I will take them via Samsung SoC.

Nice find!

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

There are some nasty interactions between DRM drivers calling
into sound drivers for HDMI audio, but I checked that this is fine
here because of CONFIG_DRM=m.