linux-kernel - Re: ARM defconfig files

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Date:	Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:36:07 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	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 03, 2010 at 01:31:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Now, the above is a _trivial_ one. And it's actually broken, because I 
> should not have forced CONFIG_USB (it depends on CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT). 

Seems to me that the brokenness of select is the main technical issue
stopping us getting rid of the defconfigs.  If there was a way to tell
the Kconfig machinery "I want CONFIG_USB on, you figure out what has
to be enabled for that to make sense" then it would all work.  But
that's a hard problem (and may possibly have multiple solutions).

Paul.
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