linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/12] RISC-V: Clean up the defconfigs

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Message-ID: <CAAhSdy3LgDmv5dfuOnBXpJsD_noPecgpjzf7V8v2UjM8WVHcjw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:41:29 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
Cc:     linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>,
        Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@...onical.com>,
        Bin Meng <bin.meng@...driver.com>,
        Sagar Shrikant Kadam <sagar.kadam@...ive.com>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] RISC-V: Clean up the defconfigs

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:14 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com> wrote:
>
> It's been a while since updating the defconfigs, so I figured it would
> be good to go through all the diff to make sure nothing was lurking.  It
> turns out there were two minor issues, which I've fixed with the first
> two patches.  The rest of these are just cleanups that should have no
> functional change.
>
> I don't have a K210 (I might somewhere, but I've yet to boot it) so I
> can't test this to make sure, but I think patch 2 is the reason we have
> a special !MMU PAGE_OFFSET config.  If someone does have one it'd be
> nice to be able to remove that special case.
>
>

Using savedefconfig, I used to always get a huge diff so thanks for
doing this cleanups. Going forward, I suggest that we insiste everyone
to always use "make savedefconfig" for creating defconfig patches.

Regards,
Anup