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

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Date:   Sat, 10 Nov 2018 09:32:55 -0800
From:   Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        ARM-SoC Maintainers <arm@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] arm64: defconfig: Drop ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/18, Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr> wrote:
> > On 10/11/2018 09:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> >> 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,
> >
> > Isn't that what commit c432c0880596 did? :-p
>
> Olof did that one ;-)

Yeah, it was because of churn caused by things moving over many releases.

In the end, it's documenting what the kernel builds anyway. We don't
do it often, I think this was the first time in recent memory.


-Olof