On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:04:13PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:45:28 +0200, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote: > > The point is, being able to disable features I don't want on my kernel > > image, is completely valid, if there's a compile breakage, then fix the > > breakage but don't prevent the board from compiling. > > > I understand. That being said, Linus has made it well known that > defconfigs will not be an option going forward. Have we found another I never mentioned defconfigs here. > means of selecting the basic drivers necessary to get a fully functional > board? Perhaps a CONFIG_MACH_OMAP3_BEAGLE_CORE option selecting the > necessary driver for a fully functional board would be a solution. I I'll leave this for Tony to decide, but I don't like your proposal. > remember this being discussed several months ago (when Linus started > pulling defconfigs out of the tree), but I don't recall there being any > replacement proposals. It should be possible to build a functional > kernel from the mainline without iterating over all available > configuration options. So you're saying that when you're building a kernel for you laptop/desktop you don't have to get a menuconfig and choose the drivers you want to compile ? I dare to doubt that. -- balbi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
