linux-kernel - Re: Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm]

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:09:17 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:54:24PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:31:24PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Not everything in drivers/ is suitable for every ARM configuration.  It
> > was felt at the time better for ARM to remain separate because people
> > didn't want to pollute drivers/Kconfig with the ARM specific conditionals.
> > 
> Today we would have used HAVE_ for the problematic parts and thus
> it would have been easy to not select what ARM does not support.
> But unfortunately thats not how it got designed.
> 
> 
> It would be nice to revist one day to see how much is actually needed
> to cleanly supprt ARM in drivers/Kconfig.

You could diff the two Kconfig files - I try to keep them so they list
the same Kconfigs in the same order to keep the diff size down.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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