Hi Tony,
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 5:11 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [190205 10:58]:
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:07:38AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 9:37 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > These are automatically selected with make multi_v7_defconfig,
> > > > except for SH_DMAE which is selected only by sound/soc/sh/Kconfig.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Thanks, this matches similar changes to shmobile_defconfig in commit
> > > 4162325afd0d553c ("ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Refresh for v5.0-rc1")
> > > in next.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > >
> > > I didn't update multi_v7_defconfig to avoid conflicts.
> > > IMHO the arm-soc maintainers should handle the refresh of the common
> > > config on a regular basis[*].
> > >
> > > [*] When is the right time? I'd say it should be the last commit just
> > > before the release of rc1 (so all arm-soc submaintainers' trees will
> > > have the new base in their for-next branches for the next merge
> > > window), but that may be difficult to implement.
> > >
> > > What do you think? Thanks!
>
> Yeah I agree we should do it on regular basis just before -rc1
> for multi_v7_defconfig.
>
> The reasoning being that make savedefconfig is pretty much useless
> otherwise for generating defconfig patches and the chances of
> pointless merge conflicts and errors keep increasing until
> something breaks :)
That's why I never copy blindly a saved defconfig over multi_v7_defconfig,
but diff the saved defconfig before/after, and apply that patch to
multi_v7_defconfig....
> I can attempt to do a late branch of the dropped and moved options
> refreshed against arm-soc defconfig branch if that helps.
That's up to the arm-soc maintainers, I think.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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