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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm]
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:09:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080105210917.GC7797@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080105205424.GA10191@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:54:24PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:31:24PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Not everything in drivers/ is suitable for every ARM configuration.  It
> > was felt at the time better for ARM to remain separate because people
> > didn't want to pollute drivers/Kconfig with the ARM specific conditionals.
> > 
> Today we would have used HAVE_ for the problematic parts and thus
> it would have been easy to not select what ARM does not support.
> But unfortunately thats not how it got designed.
> 
> 
> It would be nice to revist one day to see how much is actually needed
> to cleanly supprt ARM in drivers/Kconfig.

You could diff the two Kconfig files - I try to keep them so they list
the same Kconfigs in the same order to keep the diff size down.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-05 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-05 15:42 [PATCH 4/5] USB Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm Al Boldi
2008-01-05 18:46 ` David Brownell
2008-01-05 19:20 ` Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm] Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 20:31   ` Russell King
2008-01-05 20:54     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05 21:09       ` Russell King [this message]
2008-01-05 22:09     ` Arnd Bergmann

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