[PATCH] omap2-beagle: Depend upon CONFIG_GPIO_TWL4030
Felipe Balbi
balbi at ti.com
Wed Jan 19 23:08:25 EST 2011
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:04:13PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:45:28 +0200, Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> wrote:
> > The point is, being able to disable features I don't want on my kernel
> > image, is completely valid, if there's a compile breakage, then fix the
> > breakage but don't prevent the board from compiling.
> >
> I understand. That being said, Linus has made it well known that
> defconfigs will not be an option going forward. Have we found another
I never mentioned defconfigs here.
> means of selecting the basic drivers necessary to get a fully functional
> board? Perhaps a CONFIG_MACH_OMAP3_BEAGLE_CORE option selecting the
> necessary driver for a fully functional board would be a solution. I
I'll leave this for Tony to decide, but I don't like your proposal.
> remember this being discussed several months ago (when Linus started
> pulling defconfigs out of the tree), but I don't recall there being any
> replacement proposals. It should be possible to build a functional
> kernel from the mainline without iterating over all available
> configuration options.
So you're saying that when you're building a kernel for you
laptop/desktop you don't have to get a menuconfig and choose the drivers
you want to compile ? I dare to doubt that.
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balbi
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