Re: [PATCH] soc-family: fix SOC_FAMILY override order

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 13:24 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Maupin, Chase <chase.maupin@ti.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Maupin, Chase
> >> We can have more generic to more specific combinations.
> >>
> >> > Or are you trying to build something like omap3->am35xx->am3517
> >> where you can use omap3 as a more generic setting but still use
> >> am35xx for a slightly more restrictive group that is still
> >> grouping like parts, and finally you use am3517 for the exact
> >> part?
> >>
> >> Exactly so we avoid duplication stuff to boards or SoCs. Another
> >> example of use: imx -> mx6q -> mx6.
> >
> > I see.  This could be of some use and I'll play with it.  This
> should not be required though for this patch since right now I want to
> fix the order issue.  Any objection to the patch as is?
> 
> No; not really. I just wanted to ask if you could look at it as well
> so we can have it working. It does make things much easier for all us.

As pointed out this already merged.

I'd also point out that you can use MACHINEOVERRIDES directly to specify
additional machine overrides so I'm not sure there is much extra
complexity here that is really needed.

Cheers,

Richard