From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 10 May 2006 12:29:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:5007 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133513AbWEJK2y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 12:28:54 +0200 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4AASrBx004197; Wed, 10 May 2006 11:28:53 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4AASq7h004196; Wed, 10 May 2006 11:28:52 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:28:52 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Martin Michlmayr , Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MIPS] create consistency in "system type" selection Message-ID: <20060510102852.GA3193@linux-mips.org> References: <20060509213453.GA32050@deprecation.cyrius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11385 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:27:25AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > The "system type" Kconfig options on MIPS are not consistent. For > > some platforms, only the name is listed while other entries are > > prepended with "Support for". Remove this as it doesn't make sense > > when describing the "system type". This is in line with how e.g. > > ARM handles this. > > I guess the `Support for' prefix came from the era you could compile one kernel > that supported multiple systems. You still can but they need to be lumped together into a single group in the "System type" menu. In reality it's not terribly interesting and rarely tested. Ralf