Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dne Čt 3. června 2010 21:24:59 Russell King - ARM Linux napsal(a):
> > The subject says everything you need to know.  Randy provided this
> > link earlier:
> > 
> >   http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/2/472
> > 
> > Linus doesn't appear to be listening to reason, so I see now this as
> > a fait accompli.  It'll apparantly happen at the next merge window.
> 
> The defconfigs age ... there's no point keeping them. They'll be useless crap 
> unless someone updates them often anyway.
> 
> Maybe adding a Kconfig option that's select all the default stuff the platform 
> needs would be a way to go ? (that was already proposed there)

The problem comes (as Daniel pointed out _after_ my suggested solution to
this problem) is if you want to turn off something that's 'selected' in
this way.

Anyway, let's not start a new lengthy thread on the subject here; it won't
have much effect being only on this list.