Re: [PATCH 0/8] powerpc/8xx: Getting rid of CONFIG_8xx

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 16:24 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Two config options exist to define powerpc MPC8xx:
> * CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> * CONFIG_8xx
> In addition, CONFIG_PPC_8xx also defines CONFIG_CPM1 as
> communication co-processor
> 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype has contained the following
> comment about CONFIG_8xx item for some years:
> "# this is temp to handle compat with arch=ppc"
> 
> It looks like not many places still have that old CONFIG_8xx used,
> so it is likely to be a good time to get rid of it completely ?
> 
> Patchset is composed of the following patches:
> [1/8] powerpc: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> [2/8] um: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> [3/8] video: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> [4/8] net: freescale: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> [5/8] tty: cpm_uart: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_CPM1
> [6/8] mtd: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> [7/8] isdn: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> [8/8] powerpc: get rid of CONFIG_8xx
> 
> All but the last one are independant and can be applied in any
> order. Only the 8th one requires the first 7 patches to be applied.

Sounds good.

I only see 0, 4 and 7 on linuxppc-dev for some reason.

You'll need to collect ACKs, or get the individual patches merged, and then we
can take patch 8 through the powerpc tree once those are all in - probably for
4.2.

cheers