linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff

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Message-ID: <AANLkTim6E+e=D88C8g+YDVwS1D5JPeXvVRw-JVoVxh2i@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:02:18 +0200
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-main <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Hao Wu <hao.wu@...el.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:14:13AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>>  config REGULATOR_TWL4030
>>       bool "TI TWL4030/TWL5030/TWL6030/TPS695x0 PMIC"
>>       depends on TWL4030_CORE
>> +     default y
>>       help
>>         This driver supports the voltage regulators provided by
>>         this family of companion chips.
>
> This default is not suitable for non-OMAP platforms, it should be
> conditional on OMAP or something if we're going to do this (though
> generally we handle this with defconfigs rather than in Kconfig).

This would only be enabled when TWL4030_CORE is enabled, so non-OMAP
platforms would not get affected.

I guess you have seen the complaint from Linus regarding ARM relying
too much on defconfigs. This helps in order to simplify defconfigs,
and eventually getting rid of them completely.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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