From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/30] ARM: omap: add board autoselection Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:54:41 +0200 Message-ID: <5055144.Y0IUdMEWXQ@wuerfel> References: <1317566760-25681-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <3656685.pM1zNST8gQ@wuerfel> <4E898010.80208@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E898010.80208@ti.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Cousson, Benoit" Cc: Tony Lindgren , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "Shilimkar, Santosh" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Monday 03 October 2011 11:27:44 Cousson, Benoit wrote: > > > > In the long run, I'd hope we can just get rid of these for subarchitectures > > that support device tree probing and make the device tree based machine > > description unconditional. > > This is really our goal, we will have soon the board-generic.c for that, > someone will just have to migrate these ~30 board files to device tree > DTS files For the purpose of build-time validation using randconfig, there is no problem in keeping some board files forever, as long as the generic board file is always built-in. Arnd