Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753020Ab0FDLcm (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 07:32:42 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:51394 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809Ab0FDLcl (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2010 07:32:41 -0400 From: Catalin Marinas To: 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 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> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:31:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Grant Likely's message of "Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:15:45 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2010 11:31:56.0296 (UTC) FILETIME=[89AF8880:01CB03D9] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1323 Lines: 33 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. There was an attempt to fix this (I can re-post if people are interested): http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/16/413 -- Catalin -- 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/