Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

Hendrik Sattler post at hendrik-sattler.de
Wed Jun 9 02:07:20 EDT 2010


Am Mittwoch 09 Juni 2010, 01:21:24 schrieb Ryan Mallon:
> Yes. I thought the problem was that Kconfig doesn't work correctly for
> this though. Does having 'select MTD_PARTITIONS' automatically cause
> CONFIG_MTD to be set? If not, then you basically need to have the full
> config option list, which is basically what defconfig is.

Anybody thought about improving Kconfig to make this possible?
Specifying CONFIG_MTD and CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS again and again will just 
repeat information (that CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS depends on CONFIG_MTD).
The recursive 'select' could have a different name.

HS



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