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SubjectRe: ARM defconfig files
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On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > No amount of reorganising the Kconfig files into a heirarchial manner
> > (which they already are) helps. Not one bit. Because they already are.
> > That's not where the problem is.
>
> I don't think you read the whole thread.
>
> Earlier on, I explained exactly what I wanted: just add some "select"
> statements to pickt he things you need per the particular target
> configuration. You seem to have missed that part.
>
> In other words, you _can_ encode the information that is in the
> xyz_defconfig files by doing it in Kconfig.xyz files instead. But you do
> it in a human-readable manner. And the hierarchical thing is absolutely
> required for that - otherwise you'd end up with just another form of the
> current xyz_defconfig.
>
> See?
>
> In other words, you should be able to basically use "make allnoconfig"
> together with a Kconfig.xyz file input to select _exactly_ the pieces you
> need, and nothing else.

If you did this for drivers, what about disabling a driver? If we used
"select" wouldn't that force all the drivers on without allowing it to
be unselected?

Daniel



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