Re: defconfig for v850, please

[Paul Mundt]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:01:56PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Still, for basic compile testing and testing patches on other
> architectures it would be nice, when the patch writer can test his/her
> patch with a simple defconfig, without knowing a common platform for
> this target arch.

This is what KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is for. A general purpose defconfig that
has no hope of being kept up-to-date is worse than useless.

> arm is another one which uses this style, ia64 for example uses configs/*
> and defconfig. But on arm and sh `make defconfig` works contrary to v850.
> 
That's because it looks at KBUILD_DEFCONFIG.. We absolutely do not want
to have an arch/foo/defconfig for most of these architectures, and I
doubt that v850 is an exception. Note that sh also does not have one.

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