Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Ryan Mallon wrote:

> Striping the spitz defconfig back for example:
> 
>   ryan at okiwi:configs$ wc -l spitz_defconfig
>   1820 spitz_defconfig
> 
>   ryan at okiwi:configs$ grep -v "is not set" spitz_defconfig | grep -v
> "^#" | wc -l
>   641
> 
> So removing all the comments and non-set options makes the defconfig
> about 1/3 the size. If the defconfigs were generated by hand, or a
> proper set of tools, then they could be much less verbose and diffs for
> things like adding or removing a single config option would actually be
> readable.
> 
> If we want to have individual board configurations in the kernel, then
> the information has to live somewhere. Whether it is defconfig, KConfig,
> Documentation, whatever, the information will still take up a similar
> amount of space, and the process of moving the information will generate
> a load of diffstat noise.

Did you see the SheevaPlug example I posted earlier?  It contains only 
10 lines of added information.  Certainly not similar amount of space to 
the existing defconfig files.


Nicolas