From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:15:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable shmobile platforms Message-Id: <1624861.F2XBvOBm9V@wuerfel> List-Id: References: <1421684018-11894-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <1467925.IxO001Hv1t@avalon> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 21 January 2015 14:09:56 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Laurent Pinchart > 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