Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:09:17 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
       linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm]
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:54:24PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:31:24PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Not everything in drivers/ is suitable for every ARM configuration.  It
> > was felt at the time better for ARM to remain separate because people
> > didn't want to pollute drivers/Kconfig with the ARM specific conditionals.
> > 
> Today we would have used HAVE_ for the problematic parts and thus
> it would have been easy to not select what ARM does not support.
> But unfortunately thats not how it got designed.
> 
> 
> It would be nice to revist one day to see how much is actually needed
> to cleanly supprt ARM in drivers/Kconfig.

You could diff the two Kconfig files - I try to keep them so they list
the same Kconfigs in the same order to keep the diff size down.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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