[PATCH 2/9] ARM: mmp: distinguish mmp and mmp2 in Kconfig

Haojian Zhuang haojian.zhuang at gmail.com
Wed May 2 01:53:12 EDT 2012


On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2012, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> Append four CONFIG_* MACRO to distinguish boards in arch-mmp.
>>
>> CONFIG_MMP_LEGACY and CONFIG_MMP2_LEGACY are used to support boards
>> without device tree.
>>
>> CONFIG_MMP_DT and CONFIG_MMP2_DT are used to support boards with
>> device tree.
>>
>> At the same time, only one of these four macro could be selected.
>> It's used to miss compiling all boards file together.
>
> Can you explain why this is done? It seems counterintuitive to
> have the DT and non-DT support be mutually exclusive.
>
If I selected DT support, I needn't select those machine support one
by one. I want to use
mmp-dt to support all PXA168/PXA910 boards, and use mmp2-dt to support
all mmp2 boards.
So I use exclusive statements in Kconfig for convenience.

Thanks
Haojian



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