[PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: Kconfig.platforms: Group NXP platforms together

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 13:52:12 PDT 2022


On 9/15/22 09:08, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:38:29AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> Group the three NXP platforms under an ARCH_NXP menuconfig symbol to
>> make make selection of similar vendor SoCs visually nicer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While these are convenient if they're done right from the beginning, the result
> of adding a new dependency like this is that old defconfigs stop working if you
> just go with the default.
> 
> Was there a reason to group these now and cause this config churn for
> downstream users?

No reason to cause churn, and no specific reason other than visually and 
logically group options from the same vendors. I had clearly not 
anticipated the defconfig breakage, too bad that Kconfig does not allow 
menuconfig items to be enabled by default, or does it?
-- 
Florian



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