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

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Message-ID: <20181113173300.GA8432@e107533-lin>
Date:   Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:33:00 +0000
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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 Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 09:57:27AM +0100, 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, 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.
>
Thanks for the clarification. I must have misunderstood what's done in
Commit c432c0880596 ("arm64: defconfig: renormalize based on recent additions")
I assume it was just the reordering rather than addition/removal of entries.
It's not so clear from the log message.

--
Regards,
Sudeep