Re: ARM defconfig files

[Felipe Balbi]

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 <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [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

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