[PATCH] ARM: defconfig: include QCOM_EBI2 in multi_v7

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Jan 11 07:22:18 PST 2017


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>> This adds the Qualcomm External Bus Interface 2 to the multi_v7
>> defconfig: it is hard for users to realize that this is a
>> required driver for getting things like ethernet, and a necessary
>> prerequisite to get the external bus discoverable on the
>> MSM8660/APQ8060 machines.
>
> Is it the kind of option that should really be selected through
> Kconfig instead for those platforms?

Stephen Boyd question.

AFAIK the ambition is to go with the platform to have zero
stuff in mach-qcom/* and thus it all becomes a defconfig
thing.

> I.e. is it ever really likely that we'll want it off?

Not really, if this chip should be supported in the resulting
image.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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