From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: which drivers subdirs should be automatically selected?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:30:07 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912221028580.4973@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091222152340.GA22533@pengutronix.de>
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:02:40AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > drivers/Makefile:
> >
> > obj-y += net/
> > obj-y += serial/
> > obj-y += nand/
> > obj-y += nor/
> > obj-y += usb/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_I2C) += i2c/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO) += video/
> >
> >
> > is there a fundamental reason that some of those subdirs are
> > auto-selected, while others are based on a CONFIG variable?
> > asked another way, are there some driver subdirs that are so
> > fundamentally required that they *should* be auto-selected, or
> > should *everything* be a user-selectable choice? the above just
> > seems slightly inconsistent and non-obvious.
>
> They should be selectable.
i thought as much. perhaps i'll start with that smaller fix and
work my way up if i can make that change in isolation to start with.
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-22 15:02 which drivers subdirs should be automatically selected? Robert P. J. Day
2009-12-22 15:23 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-22 15:30 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2009-12-23 9:06 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-12-23 9:11 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-12-23 9:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
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