linux-kernel - Re: ARM defconfig files

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Date:	Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:18:38 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@...ia.com>
To:	ext Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0200, ext Grant Likely wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
>> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> [100603 23:30]:
>>>
>>> and now you'd be able to basically generate a OMAP3EVM .config file by
>>> just running "allnoconfig" on that Kconfig.omap3_evm file. But it would
>>> only have to select the parts that are specific for the EVM platform,
>>> because the generic OMAP3 support would be picked by the Kconfig.omap3
>>> file, which in turn would not have to worry about the generic ARM parts
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> See?
>>
>> Sounds like a good improvment to me.
>
>(as one who just finishing updating powerpc defconfigs...) ditto here.
> I'd be happy to be rid of all the existing ppc defconfigs.
>
>I like the Kconfig approach, but to be useful (at least for me) there
>would need to be a way to get Kconfig to complain about things like
>broken selects as in your example.

Still selects needs to be improved so we have a 'select_module' option 
that would make that driver a module instead of built-in.

-- 
balbi

DefectiveByDesign.org
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