linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] Convert WAR defines to config options

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Message-ID: <20200824172850.GA11179@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:28:50 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Convert WAR defines to config options

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:10:07AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 8/24/20 9:32 AM, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > This patches convert workaround (WAR) defines into config options and
> > gets rid of mach-*/war.h files.
> 
> Most (all but octeon?) of those platforms are not particularly popular
> or widespread, but is not this going to make it harder for distributions
> and people doing CI by having an explosion in the number of
> configurations to test?

all options are only selected by arch/mips/Kconfig, so nothing should
change for any CI.

Thomas.

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