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Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:54:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: Agn-P3jpxnXN Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:54:11 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Linus Walleij" , =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_D=C3=B6singer?= Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" , "Shuah Khan" , "Russell King" , "Rob Herring" , "Krzysztof Kozlowski" , "Conor Dooley" , "Krzysztof Kozlowski" , "Alexandre Belloni" , "Drew Fustini" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Jiri Slaby" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, soc@lists.linux.dev, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <30b96e0d-f296-4c31-8701-a15c568ebffc@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20260421-send-v5-0-ace038e63515@gmail.com> <20260421-send-v5-8-ace038e63515@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] ARM: defconfig: Add a zx29 defconfig file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260424_015454_744273_8A5B7BD0 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 21.36 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Fri, Apr 24, 2026, at 09:13, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 10:24=E2=80=AFPM Stefan D=C3=B6singer > wrote: > >> This enables existing drivers that already are (UART) or will be (USB, >> GPIO) necessary to operate this board even if they aren't declared in >> the DTS yet. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan D=C3=B6singer > > *I* personally (as SoC maintainer) think that having a few more defcon= figs > is fine, even helpful. > > But I would defer this to the more senior SoC maintainers because I th= ink > their stance is something like: > > - We have multi_v7_defconfig for compile testing > > - We know that binary gets way to big for your system: it's for build > testing and perhaps booting in QEMU or systems with many MB of > RAM, not for actually running it on products. > > - You are encouraged to keep your own defconfig out-of-tree. Right, we clearly need to do something better than what we are with the general defconfigs, as I'm sure many of the existing ones are never actually used for booting a machine, and are horribly out of date with the Kconfig options. I wouldn't object to adding another defconfig for a new (or revived) soc family, but I don't want to have more per-board ones. Overall, we have about 70 defconfigs and 55 soc families that have their own mach-* directory (plus a few without code), and the number of defconfigs alone makes it hard to keep them up to date.=20 > However I even challenged this myself by adding a defconfig for memory > constrained Broadcoms a while back (NACKed/ignored ;) so if it was all > up to me I would merge this. I don't even remember that discussion ;-) One idea might be to have a tiny base defconfig, plus platform specific fragments that add drivers. The problem is agreeing what bits are essential enough to still get enabled in the tiny config. Arnd