Re: Can ARM use drivers/Kconfig [Was: Kconfig: Source "drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig" for ARCH=arm]

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 16:09:44 EST


On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:54:24PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:31:24PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Not everything in drivers/ is suitable for every ARM configuration. It
> > was felt at the time better for ARM to remain separate because people
> > didn't want to pollute drivers/Kconfig with the ARM specific conditionals.
> >
> Today we would have used HAVE_ for the problematic parts and thus
> it would have been easy to not select what ARM does not support.
> But unfortunately thats not how it got designed.
>
>
> It would be nice to revist one day to see how much is actually needed
> to cleanly supprt ARM in drivers/Kconfig.

You could diff the two Kconfig files - I try to keep them so they list
the same Kconfigs in the same order to keep the diff size down.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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