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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable shmobile platforms
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:15:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1624861.F2XBvOBm9V@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdWObPPnpDPQbrq1HRj9BSBFuNNusQkDhaDTxP+_16oMNg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 21 January 2015 14:09:56 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> > To avoid bloating the kernel needlessly, couldn't at least some of the drivers
> > needed for the shmobile boards be compiled as modules ? Audio, USB, SATA,
> > touchscreen are possible candidates, depending on what we need to boot the
> > boards to userspace.
> 
> That's a possibility.
> 
> Note that currently there are almost no modules in multi_v7_defconfig:
> CONFIG_INET6_AH=m
> CONFIG_INET6_ESP=m
> CONFIG_INET6_IPCOMP=m
> CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6=m
> CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL=m
> CONFIG_CFG80211=m
> CONFIG_MAC80211=m
> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m
> CONFIG_RT2X00=m
> CONFIG_RT2800USB=m
> 
> Arnd, Olof: What do you prefer?
> 

I think it would be nice to move to having more loadable modules. We
haven't really asked people to do that in the past, but the size is
starting to become a problem and we may end up having to change a lot
of the '=y' to '=m' in the future.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-21 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-19 16:13 [PATCH v3] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable shmobile platforms Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-01-20  1:25 ` Simon Horman
2015-01-21 13:02 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-01-21 13:09   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-01-21 13:15     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-02-04 10:12       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-04 10:16         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-02-04 17:08     ` Kevin Hilman

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