[RFC PATCHv1 1/2] Export SoC info through sysfs

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin-nonst at stericsson.com
Thu Mar 10 08:16:16 EST 2011


On 03/10/2011 02:18 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>> On 03/09/2011 06:47 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> Would it not be better for this to depend on a symbol that systems can
>>> select when they add useful output?  If there's nothing that generates
>>> information for it on a given platform there's no point in enabling it.
>> It is deactivated by default when "default" parameter is not mentioned.
> That's not the point - if the user sees the option and turns it on then
> there won't be anything they can actually do with it unless some other
> bit of software creates some data.  No sense in offering them an option
> they can't actually use.

I agree, I will remove the Kconfig option and let platform selects it.



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