[PATCH] ARM: nommu: re-enable use of vexpress without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Jan 9 16:09:37 EST 2013
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Rob Herring wrote:
> That patch is already posted, but Russell doesn't like it as you can
> have a kernel that doesn't boot. You don't like the allno and randconfig
> failures, so we're stuck. I think there are dozens of config options
> that will make you not boot on any given platform, so failing to boot
> because you did not select your machine is a non-issue.
Rather than simply accept that "there are dozens of config options that
will make you not boot on any given platform" and allow for this to be
used as an argument for future sloppiness, I think we should consider
fixing the config rules to avoid that situation as much as possible
instead.
Nicolas
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