Re: [RFC][PATCH] kernel/configs: Drop Android config fragments

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 02:15:23 EST


On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 06:04:09PM +0000, John Stultz wrote:
> In the old days where each device had a custom kernel, the
> android config fragments were useful to provide the required
> and reccomended options expected by userland.
>
> However, these days devices are expected to use the GKI kernel,
> so these config fragments no longer needed, and out of date, so
> they seem to only cause confusion.
>
> So lets drop them. If folks are curious what configs are
> expected by the Android environment, check out the gki_defconfig
> file in the latest android common kernel tree.
>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 5 -
> kernel/configs/android-base.config | 159 ----------------------
> kernel/configs/android-recommended.config | 127 -----------------
> 3 files changed, 291 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 kernel/configs/android-base.config
> delete mode 100644 kernel/configs/android-recommended.config

Yeah!

I'll be glad to take this if I can get some acks.

thanks for doing this.

greg k-h