linux-kernel - Re: ARM defconfig files

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Message-ID: <AANLkTin1UYFfstxPQpmUXawyX1YRqr-PMDCwjFRsJtR_@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:15:45 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	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
Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files

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.

g.
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