From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:40:10 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Patchwork oldest patches cleanup #2 (deadline November 17) In-Reply-To: References: <527746D2.5000802@mind.be> Message-ID: <5278143A.5070505@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 04/11/13 12:17, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > Hi Arnout, > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: >> On 01/11/13 16:09, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> linux: add default defconfig >>> Arnout Vandecappelle >>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/181185 >> >> >> This one didn't receive positive feedback, so I guess it's rejected. Short >> recap: it allows you to build the kernel with the architecture's default >> defconfig, which is typically a bloaty configuration that supports many >> boards (if an appropriate device tree is present). IIRC the feedback was >> that this wasn't usually appropriate for buildroot use cases. > > One annoyance I have is that if you want to quickly test something > (for example when reviewing patches) and you enable a Linux kernel, > you also have to specify a defconfig. Your patch would fix that use > case. In such a test case, I typically don't care what is included in > the kernel, because I would only compile-test. I completely agree, that was the reason that I created the patch in the first place. Unfortunately, the x86_defconfig is _huge_. And as mentioned by ThomasP, the other architecture's defconfigs aren't worth much. So I don't think this patch is really valuable after all. Regards, Arnout > But I can also follow ThomasP's comments on that patch. > There was a suggestion in case of x86 though, which in many cases > would be ok for me in the above scenario. I wouldn't be against having > just that... > > Best regards, > Thomas > > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F