linux-kernel - Re: Arm and allyesconfig, allnoconfig, allmodconfig and randconfig

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Message-Id: <1241093854.6754.1313086299@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:17:34 +0200
From:	"Jack Stone" <jwjstone@...tmail.fm>
To:	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Arm and allyesconfig, allnoconfig, allmodconfig and randconfig



On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:33 +0100, "Russell King - ARM Linux"
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Patches welcome.

Is this the sort of thing you meant? I don't know if the text or
location is correct so comments are very welcome.

Thanks,

Jack

Document that ARM doesn't support all*config

From: Jack Stone <jwjstone@...tmail.fm>

ARM doesn't support all*config. This is because it does not make sense
as
there are so many different variants. Instead the defconfigs should be
used.

Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <jwjstone@...tmail.fm>
---

 Documentation/arm/README |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/README b/Documentation/arm/README
index d98783f..8239e5f 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/README
+++ b/Documentation/arm/README
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Compilation of kernel
   (arch/arm/boot/Image).  A compressed image can be built by doing a
   'make zImage' instead of 'make Image'.

+  NOTE: ARM Linux doesn't support the all*config targets. This is
because of
+    the number of variants supported. The defconfig targets should be
used
+    instead.

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