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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files
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Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:21:59AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > I don't see how we can do without defconfigs altogether tho. I mean , if
> > you want to run a Beagle board or a Nexus one we can't just give the
> > users a slim ARM config and let them troll through 1000's of drivers
> > trying to find just those ones that work on their given board.
> 
> Well, you also don't need the full defconfig's with the kernel.
> 
That's true. We already have things like KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG for these
purposes, and that's primarily what I use for buildig bootable
randconfigs for specific board/CPU combinations on SH.