Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754366Ab0FCWQJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:16:09 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:45829 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753130Ab0FCWQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:16:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100603211707.GA6499@atomide.com> References: <20100603074548.GA12104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603181010.GA25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603185333.GD25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1275593742.23384.48.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100603194559.GF25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603211707.GA6499@atomide.com> From: Grant Likely Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:15:45 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: tpPphWARRDEVaE7uMaTo_L0IiNk Message-ID: Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files To: Tony Lindgren , Linus Torvalds Cc: Russell King , Daniel Walker , Kevin Hilman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1128 Lines: 27 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Linus Torvalds [100603 23:30]: >> >> and now you'd be able to basically generate a OMAP3EVM .config file by >> just running "allnoconfig" on that Kconfig.omap3_evm file. But it would >> only have to select the parts that are specific for the EVM platform, >> because the generic OMAP3 support would be picked by the Kconfig.omap3 >> file, which in turn would not have to worry about the generic ARM parts >> etc. >> >> See? > > Sounds like a good improvment to me. (as one who just finishing updating powerpc defconfigs...) ditto here. I'd be happy to be rid of all the existing ppc defconfigs. I like the Kconfig approach, but to be useful (at least for me) there would need to be a way to get Kconfig to complain about things like broken selects as in your example. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/