linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] Kconfig: cleanup SERIO

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Date:	Sun, 15 Dec 2013 10:50:26 -0500
From:	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] Kconfig: cleanup SERIO_I8042 dependencies

On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 02:36 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:32:31AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 12/14/2013 08:59 AM, Mark Salter wrote:
> > > Remove messy dependencies from SERIO_I8042 by having it depend on one
> > > Kconfig symbol (ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO) and having architectures
> > > which need it select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO in arch/*/Kconfig.
> > > New architectures are unlikely to need SERIO_I8042, so this avoids
> > > having an ever growing list of architectures to exclude.

> How are we going to merge this? In bulk through input tree or peacemeal
> through all arches first?
> 

They should all go together to eliminate the chance of bisect breakage.
Either the input tree or maybe akpm tree.


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