linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: configs: keystone: Remove this defconfig

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:41:16 -0600
From: Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
To: Andrew Davis <afd@...com>
CC: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar
	<ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: configs: keystone: Remove this defconfig

On 10:28-20240124, Andrew Davis wrote:
> TI Keystone devices can and should use the common multi-v7 defconfig.
> Currently it is not clear which defconfig should be used and so config
> options for Keystone boards are added to either both defconfigs, or only
> one or the other. As nice as it is to have a config just for this platform
> it is a maintenance burden. As it is not used by generic distros it is not
> very useful to continue to maintain. Remove this defconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@...com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig | 238 ----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/configs/keystone_defconfig
> 

There are a bunch of downstream folks who will have recipe fails etc if
we do that. I am not sure we need to go down that route.

I know we had intent on multi_v7_defconfig -> but as far as I recollect,
at least during armv7 it did'nt exactly pan out as it did on armv8.

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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