Javier, On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:49:09PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hi Ezequiel > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Ezequiel Garcia > <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Pekon, > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 01:55:58PM +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote: > >> > > >> > I'm wondering how are you testing this in your SOC_AM33XX board (which > >> > is not ARCH_OMAP3). You probably have ARCH_OMAP3 always selected? > >> > > >> Yes, omap2plus_defconfig is a super set.. > >> arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig automatically enables ARCH_OMAP3. > >> > > > > Yes, but I always remove what I won't use to reduce build time. > > > > And now that you bring this issue. IMHO, the AM33xx family is going > > to be more and more widely used, so maybe introducing an am33xx_defconfig > > makes sense. > > > > Or is the trend to have the least possible amount of defconfigs? > > I'm not familiar with AM33xx so I don't know how similar is to OMAP3 > but we used to have different defconfigs for each OMAP board before > and consolidated everything in only two defconfigs: omap1_defconfig to > be used for all OMAP1 devices and omap2plus_defconfig to be used for > all OMAP2+ (i.e: OMAP{2,3,4,5}) devices. > > Those have all the common kconfig options and board vendors can > customize to fit their needs and have a delta with something like: > > $ ./scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh > arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig /foo/bar/igep_defconfig > > Again I'm not familiar with AM33xx but what I do know is that we > should keep defconfigs to a minimum. > Fair enough. It's just a bit annoying to have a bigger-than-minimal kernel, and I get tired of stripping the options. But I can't ask the kernel to hold my favorite picks either: we have enough churn already ;-) -- Ezequiel García, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html