From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm]
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:31:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080105203123.GA7797@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080105192000.GA9553@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:20:00PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:42:52PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> >
> > From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> >
> > Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm.
> >
> >
> > Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> > Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > --- 23.a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ 23.b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -1049,6 +1049,8 @@ source "drivers/hid/Kconfig"
> >
> > source "drivers/usb/Kconfig"
> >
> > +source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig"
> > +
> > source "drivers/mmc/Kconfig"
> >
> > source "drivers/rtc/Kconfig"
>
> What is preventing ARM from using drivers/Kconfig?
> That a better fix IMO.
Not everything in drivers/ is suitable for every ARM configuration. It
was felt at the time better for ARM to remain separate because people
didn't want to pollute drivers/Kconfig with the ARM specific conditionals.
(mtd is conditional because it's not supported on ARM CPUs without
alignment trap support.)
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-05 15:42 [PATCH 4/5] USB Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm Al Boldi
2008-01-05 18:46 ` David Brownell
2008-01-05 19:20 ` Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm] Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 20:31 ` Russell King [this message]
2008-01-05 20:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 21:09 ` Russell King
2008-01-05 22:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
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