Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932250AbcLMIIw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:08:52 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.4.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:45421 "EHLO metis.ext.4.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752029AbcLMIIt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:08:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:08:16 +0100 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Olof Johansson , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/23] arm: defconfigs: use kconfig fragments Message-ID: <20161213080816.dafyhoqhodytyy3j@pengutronix.de> References: <1481027938-31831-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1481027938-31831-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2-neo (2016-06-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:67c:670:100:1d::c5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 23 Hallo, On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > This RFC patchset starts convertion of ARM defconfigs to use kconfig > fragments and dynamically generate defconfigs. The goals of this > work are to: > > - remove duplication between defconfigs > > - add a possibility to generate board/SoC/SoC-family/Multi specific > defconfigs in the future (without duplicating defconfigs) what is the main use case for defconfigs? If it's the start point for users to get a working configuration for their machine, the idea might be fine. If however todays most important use case is build coverage, it's even a disadvantage to make the different configs more uniform. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |