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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove default=y from PMAC and CHRP Kconfigs
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:01:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223607697.8157.123.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68168CE9-D17F-4C55-BF0B-0FAFC3672398@kernel.crashing.org>

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:22 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Historically they have been the most important 32-bit platforms, along
> > with PReP.
> >
> > The problem with making all platforms default to N is that if you take
> > the default values for all config options you end up with a config
> > that won't build.  So we want at least one platform to default to Y,
> > and pmac has been as good a choice as any for that (and probably still
> > is).
> 
> I've got no issue w/grandfathering CHRP or PMAC as default Y.  However  
> I DO NOT think we should default other platforms to 'Y' as that means  
> updating configs will pick up platforms they dont want.

Ok. So Timur, please send a new patch on top of your previous one since
I already merged it, that explicitely sets PMAC and CHRP to "n" in your
defconfigs.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 19:57 [PATCH] powerpc: remove default=y from PMAC and CHRP Kconfigs Timur Tabi
2008-10-08 20:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-08 20:14   ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-08 20:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-08 20:44       ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 15:59         ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-09 16:20           ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 16:49             ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-09 17:08               ` Scott Wood
2008-10-09 17:23               ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 20:18                 ` Sven Luther
2008-10-09 21:14                   ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-09 21:28                     ` Sven Luther
2008-10-09 21:32                       ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-10  0:43             ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-10  1:22               ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-10  1:51                 ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-10  3:01                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-10  3:01                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-10-09 16:21           ` Scott Wood
2008-10-08 20:46   ` Scott Wood

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