Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751487Ab0FDFUb (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 01:20:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:22033 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896Ab0FDFU3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 01:20:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:18:38 +0300 From: Felipe Balbi To: ext Grant Likely Cc: Tony Lindgren , Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Daniel Walker , Kevin Hilman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files Message-ID: <20100604051838.GA21510@nokia.com> Reply-To: felipe.balbi@nokia.com References: <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2010 05:19:41.0197 (UTC) FILETIME=[88EDE3D0:01CB03A5] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1375 Lines: 34 On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0200, ext Grant Likely wrote: >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. Still selects needs to be improved so we have a 'select_module' option that would make that driver a module instead of built-in. -- balbi DefectiveByDesign.org -- 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/