Re: ARM defconfig files

[Catalin Marinas]

Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

There was an attempt to fix this (I can re-post if people are interested):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/16/413

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Catalin
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