[PATCH] arm/imx: use Kconfig choice for low-level debug UART selection

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Nov 22 15:24:25 EST 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 04:47:07PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 05:38:12PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:48:38PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > > > Ah, I see the problem. It's more subtile than just failure to build: it
> > > > autoselects DEBUG_ICEDCC then.
> 
> > > At this point, I think the right answer is to remove the option in
> > > linux-next, and tell anyone who complains that they need to convert
> > > their platform properly.  (We're going to need them converted in this
> > > way anyway for the single zImage project.)
> 
> > I agree.
> 
> It'd be nice if things could be arranged so that the build breaks rather
> than selecting ICEDCC on unconverted platforms - when you run into the
> problem it's not that easy to diagnose.

Well, we could leave the choice as is, and make the NONE option cause a
#error.



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