Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jun 8 08:50:53 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:44:52AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > I believe the only acceptable solution is to get an alterative method
> > in place - no matter what it is - and remove the all but one of the
> > defconfig files from the mainline kernel.  _And_, most importantly,
> > kautobuild needs to be fixed so that we still get build coverage.
> 
> I personally think that your suggestion using STD_CONFIG or similar is a 
> good way forward.  Specific needs for given targets can then be 
> expressed along with the Kconfig menu item describing that target.

It would've been nice, but Linus appears to have ruled that option out too.



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