Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:28:15 -0300 | From | Ezequiel Garcia <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80) |
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On Apr 29, Jason Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:22:27PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > On Apr 25, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > On 04/17/2014 01:21 AM, Brian Norris wrote: > > > > These defconfigs contain the CONFIG_M25P80 symbol, which is now > > > > dependent on the MTD_SPI_NOR symbol. Add CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR to the > > > > relevant defconfigs. > > > > > > > > At the same time, drop the now-nonexistent CONFIG_MTD_CHAR symbol. > > Excuse my ignorance of the history of this bug, but shouldn't this be > solved in the Kconfig logic? Since when do we solve config symbol > dependency bugs in the defconfigs? >
Long story short: it was decided that select'ing this new symbol was not appropriate. Instead, it must be explicitly selected by the user, hence the defconfig fix.
The full story: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/17/45
And in particular: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/21/425 -- Ezequiel García, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- 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/
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