On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:02:40AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > drivers/Makefile:
> >
> > obj-y += net/
> > obj-y += serial/
> > obj-y += nand/
> > obj-y += nor/
> > obj-y += usb/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_I2C) += i2c/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO) += video/
> >
> >
> > is there a fundamental reason that some of those subdirs are
> > auto-selected, while others are based on a CONFIG variable?
> > asked another way, are there some driver subdirs that are so
> > fundamentally required that they *should* be auto-selected, or
> > should *everything* be a user-selectable choice? the above just
> > seems slightly inconsistent and non-obvious.
>
> Nothing of the above is really fundamental. Without serial drivers
> you won't see anything of course, but this won't stop barebox from
> working. I think this only reflects a change of taste during time
> and should be done consistently so that other people know how to do
> it. Prefered is the obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ style.
fair enough, i can take a shot at that. stuff that's really basic
(like serial) can simply be marked as "default y" so you'd have to
explicitly *exclude* it in unusual cases.
rday
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