[PATCH v4 2/5] ARM: SMP: Refactor Kconfig to be more maintainable

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Wed Dec 14 13:20:04 EST 2011


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:46:18AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:36:55AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:11:37PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:56:30PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > > Making SMP depend on (huge list of MACH_ and ARCH_ configs) is
> > > > bothersome to maintain and likely to lead to merge conflicts.
> > > 
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-msm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-msm/Kconfig
> > > > index ebde97f..e6beaff 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-msm/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-msm/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ config MSM_SOC_REV_A
> > > >  	bool
> > > >  config  ARCH_MSM_SCORPIONMP
> > > >  	bool
> > > > +	select HAVE_SMP
> > > >  
> > > >  config  ARCH_MSM_ARM11
> > > >  	bool
> > > 
> > > The ARCH_MSM_SCORPIONMP config's only purpose was to enable SMP higher
> > > up.  We might as well eliminate ARCH_MSM_SCORPIONMP entirely, and just
> > > select HAVE_SMP in ARCH_MSM8X60 and ARCH_MSM8960.
> > 
> > First and foremost, I'm just refactoring with this series.  I've
> > included other trivial changes suggested by other people where the
> > effect is clear and straightforward.
> 
> In that light, your patch is probably the right approach.  I can clean
> our stuff up and sent out other patches later.

OK, thanks for confirming.

Cheers
---Dave



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