Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

[Eric Miao]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:43 PM, David John <davidjon at xenontk.org> wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 05:28 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:51:24PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> Linus wants something to be done about the current defconfig mess which
>>> is perfectly legitimate.  He even suggested a possible solution.  I
>>> don't think he'll simply drop those defconfig files if we demonstrate
>>> that we're taking action to fix the actual problem.
>>
>> However, having a set of patches which combine a load of defconfig
>> files into one is not going to solve the problem.
>>
>> If you're hypothesis that Linus is only looking at the diffstat, then
>> what are patches to combine the defconfigs going to do?  It's going
>> to create lots of noise in arch/arm/configs/ - which is precisely what
>> Linus is complaining about.  In fact, patch-wise it's going to create
>> an extremely large patch.  And if we do this time and time again while
>> progressively reducing the defconfigs.  No, this isn't the answer -
>> it's only going to make the problem worse.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is acceptable and it's just a suggestion - Once the
> defconfig 'mess' is fixed, why not move it to Documentation/arm/configs
> or somewhere similar where it won't interfere with the arch diffstat?
>

That's doable but my understanding is once it is fixed, the configs each
platform needs are actually encoded by the fix already. And the git history
can serve as a reference.