Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2019 12:49:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: Smarter Kconfig help |
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:52 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 05.03.2019, 17:31 +0000 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux admin:
> > While I totally agree that the irqsteer driver should only default Y on > > 64bit i.MX SoCs, I'm not really sure what to do about the Kconfig help > > text. > > > > Enumerating SoCs in the Kconfig of a IP block driver is always prone to > > get outdated. Just as the first example I've been able to come up with, > > the MMC_SDHCI_ESDHC_IMX help text says: "This selects the Freescale > > eSDHC/uSDHC controller support found on i.MX25, i.MX35 i.MX5x and > > i.MX6x.", while the same IP block is to be found on i.MX7 and various > > i.MX8. > > > > For the Kconfig user, who needs to decide if an option is relevant, > > outdated SoC information is probably just as bad as no information at > > all. > > How about "This option does not apply to AArch32 based SoCs" or
Negative is usually error prone.
> "This option should be enabled for i.MX7 and later SoCs" ?
Why it should be? It can / could be I guess.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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