Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756739Ab0FDAgT (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:36:19 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:54914 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753403Ab0FDAgS (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:36:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:36:07 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Russell King , Daniel Walker , Kevin Hilman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files Message-ID: <20100604003607.GC24687@brick.ozlabs.ibm.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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 17 On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:31:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, the above is a _trivial_ one. And it's actually broken, because I > should not have forced CONFIG_USB (it depends on CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT). Seems to me that the brokenness of select is the main technical issue stopping us getting rid of the defconfigs. If there was a way to tell the Kconfig machinery "I want CONFIG_USB on, you figure out what has to be enabled for that to make sense" then it would all work. But that's a hard problem (and may possibly have multiple solutions). Paul. -- 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/