[PATCH Resend 1/3] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate Kconfig entries

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Thu Mar 20 02:05:10 EDT 2014


Kukjin Kim wrote:
> 
> Sachin Kamat wrote:
> >
> > Instead of repeating the Kconfig entries for every SoC, move them under
> > ARCH_EXYNOS4 and 5 and move the entries common to both 4 and 5 under
> > ARCH_EXYNOS. Also, since the individual SoCs do not have any specific
> > machine/platform code, keep them as boolean symbols instead of user
> > selectable and select them from Exynos4 and 5 config symbols. Individual
> > SoC symbols can be removed eventually once the driver Kconfig dependencies
> > on these symbols are removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat at linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
> > ---
> > This is a resend of the series rebased on top of latest linux-next and
> > Tomasz Figa's PM consolidation series 1 and 2.
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/Kconfig             |   10 +++++
> >  arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig |   89
> +++++++++++---------------------------
> > ----
> >  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> >
> Hmm...I'm still thinking whether we don't need to select some specific
> Exynos SoCs. Because actually we're implement/develop some features based on
> mainline kernel and sometimes the features are not valid on all of Exynos4
> or Exynos5. Even though they are not in mainline, for mass product it's true
> that Samsung needs to do it. It's another thing we have a plan for them or
> not.

Mainline upstreaming plan.

> 
> So in my opinion, basically consolidation something is usually good but it's
> not always good so we need to provide a way to use one of both.
> 

- Kukjin




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