Re: [PATCH] ARM: tegra: rebuild tegra_defconfig

[Marc Dietrich <marvin24-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 09:29:48 Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 07:38 AM, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013, 15:30:29 schrieb Stephen Warren:
> >> On 05/28/2013 11:26 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> >>> 
> >>> This simply rebuilds tegra_defconfig on top of next-20130520. As such,
> >>> it
> >>> should introduce no changes; simply moving entries around due to Kconfig
> >>> ordering changes. The apparent exceptions are:
> >>> 
> >>> AUTO_ZRELADDR: Selected by ARM multi-platform support.
> >>> MTD_CHAR: Removed in Kconfig.
> >>> 
> >>> This should make it easier to create future defconfig patches on top of
> >>> linux-next, since all the extraneous diffs have been removed. It also
> >>> makes it more likely that once 3.12 comes around, this defconfig will
> >>> already match what's required there.
> >> 
> >> I've applied this (squashed it into) Tegra's for-3.11/defconfig branch.
> > 
> > wouldn't it make more sense to apply such a patch just before the merge
> > window closes (or better after some release candidate)?
> 
> Perhaps. It probably also depends a lot on when Kconfig changes get
> applied in other areas as far as when it makes sense. I deferred it this
> time around in order to pick up some tegra_defconfig changes that made
> it into 3.10-rc3.

ok, nice.

> > This way we would have a
> > better chance to have a zero diff between defconfig and tegra_defconfig,
> > e.g. not like 3.10 is now.
> 
> I don't understand this; what is "defconfig" if not "tegra_defconfig"?

defconfig: make tegra_defconfig; make saveconfig

diff -u tegra_defconfig defconfig

Marc