On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 07:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ Continuation on the "ARM MSM updates" thread ] > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Russell King wrote: > > > > It'd be nice if you'd copy me... > > Yeah, the thread started out as a "I got really bored with lots of msm > patches", and then just expanded into what I think is wrong with the > sub-architectures. > > > On the defconfig files, you may not like them - I don't like the > > proliferation of them either. What I've always wanted to see is > > one defconfig per class of machines - in other words, one mach-XXX. > > I can understand that, but at the same time, I do think that the > "defconfig" file concept as it is now is just broken. To the point of > being unfixable. It's obviously just a copy of the final .config, and it's > fundamentally not really readable (and especially not writable) by humans. > > And that all actually made some sense way-back-when, back when it was > originally done - back when our config files were tiny (compared to what > they are now), and when it ended up being the default input for the > config. It just doesn't make much sense any more. The Kconfig files > themselves end up having defaults for the core things, and the non-core > things are too many to list/edit sanely in that format. > > So the original reason I want to remove them is that they are very > annoying, but the reasoning that then takes that annoyance and makes me > think seriously about removing them despite the inevitable pain factor is > that I really don't think we can even use the concept for any better > model. > > Anything better would _have_ to be totally different. And no, I don't > think your "diffs against a base" model work either, because while it > would make them smaller, it would still make them basically unreadable and > uneditable by any human, which means that it's not something we should > check in - it's a generated file! Have you noticed this .. http://ktrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/5/17/4571130 I'm not sure of the goals, but it sounds like it might be relevant. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
