Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

[Eric Miao]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:43:13PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> Just wondering if a migration path is possible. Does anyone seriously think
>> about the solution Linus proposed and maybe we can have an implementation
>> and have all defconfig going that way before they are completely purged?
>
> Doesn't select from an 'm' symbol cause the target of the select to end
> up being 'm' ?  If yes, we have a way to solve this today.
>

Have a quick test and it seems to be the case.

> config ARM_PLATFORM_FOO
>        bool "Default configuration for FOO"
>        select ARCH_FOO
>        select VIDEO_WHATEVER
>
> config ARM_PLATFORM_FOO_MOD
>        tristate
>        default m if ARM_PLATFORM_FOO
>        select I2C
>        select SPI
>
> etc.  We just need to be very careful about dependencies for things like
> I2C, SPI, etc.
>