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

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Nov 23 05:57:01 EST 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:00:31PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:19:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > and then selecting DEBUG_LL_LEGACY from all platforms that do their own
> > thing. That would avoid the possible randconfig errors.
> 
> Your fix seems good to me, and avoids causing hassle for randconfig
> folks, though Russell's will be more likely to encourage people to
> convert I guess.

Although Russell's approach is a build breaker for those platforms that have
not yet made the switch, that does provide an incentive for the platform
maintainers to update their code. If we settle for a legacy solution it will
probably sit around forever.

Given that we're now past -rc2, it might be best to wait until the next
merge window to introduce the #error logic, so the LEGACY solution could be
a stopgap for 3.2.

Will



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