Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Ryan Mallon wrote:

> Is it worth being a bit proactive and getting rid of some of them in
> advance? Things like spear3[012]0_defconfig are basically identically
> except for the board type. Combining all three of those would remove
> 1500 lines of code.

Please go ahead with a patch.

> Basically reduce down to one or two defconfigs for each mach directory
> which include as many boards and drivers as possible. People wanting
> more tailored configs can do that in their own trees.

This actually should have been the plan from the start.  See for example 
orion5x_defconfig which currently already supports 23 machines.


Nicolas