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Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:08:28 -0700
From:   Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: Kconfig.platforms: Group NXP platforms
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:38:29AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Group the three NXP platforms under an ARCH_NXP menuconfig symbol to
> make make selection of similar vendor SoCs visually nicer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Hi,

While these are convenient if they're done right from the beginning, the result
of adding a new dependency like this is that old defconfigs stop working if you
just go with the default.

Was there a reason to group these now and cause this config churn for
downstream users?


-Olof