[PATCH 1/5] ARM: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
Ezequiel Garcia
ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Tue Apr 29 11:28:15 PDT 2014
On Apr 29, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:22:27PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > On Apr 25, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > > On 04/17/2014 01:21 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > > These defconfigs contain the CONFIG_M25P80 symbol, which is now
> > > > dependent on the MTD_SPI_NOR symbol. Add CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR to the
> > > > relevant defconfigs.
> > > >
> > > > At the same time, drop the now-nonexistent CONFIG_MTD_CHAR symbol.
>
> Excuse my ignorance of the history of this bug, but shouldn't this be
> solved in the Kconfig logic? Since when do we solve config symbol
> dependency bugs in the defconfigs?
>
Long story short: it was decided that select'ing this new symbol was not
appropriate. Instead, it must be explicitly selected by the user, hence
the defconfig fix.
The full story: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/17/45
And in particular: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/21/425
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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