[Possible bug] reboot doesn't work for Raspberry Pi

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Oct 20 19:22:38 PDT 2015


On 10/15/2015 11:40 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Am 07.10.2015 um 04:32 schrieb Stephen Warren:
>> On 10/02/2015 12:13 PM, Martin Sperl wrote:
>>>
>>> Should it not be a more explicit require/selects in Kconfig instead?
>>>
>>> That it gets included with older .configs as well.
>>
>> The system works well enough without this feature. select is usually
>> best for things that are absolutely necessary for the system to run at
>> all (e.g. support for the CPU architecture), and everything else is
>> usually left configurable so people can turn it off if they want. I
>> could see the argument for "default y" in the Kconfig, but probably not
>> "select" for this.
>>
> 
> Does it mean bcm2835_defconfig shouldn't be changed?

No, I meant that I wouldn't expect Kconfig to force this option on.
However, enabling this in bcm2835_defconfig makes perfect sense.



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