linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] arm64: defconfig: Drop ARM_BIG_LITTLE

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Date:   Sat, 10 Nov 2018 09:57:27 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:     marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr, arm-soc <arm@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] arm64: defconfig: Drop ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:36 AM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 11:39:42PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> > Commit a7314405d83c ("drop ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ support for ARM64")
> > dropped ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ support for ARM64.
> >
>
> Looks good,
>
> Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
>
> But I left it intentionally to avoid churn assuming it will go away when
> ARM SoC team runs savedefconfig and sync the defconfig.

I would never do that, instead I want patches like the one that Marc sent
in order to make sure we don't accidentally drop anything that is still
required, e.g. when an option got renamed or gained a dependency.

       Arnd