Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove inaccessible CMDLINE default

[Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>]

On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 07:18 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> Le 02/08/2019 à 07:02, Chris Packham a écrit :
> > 
> > Since commit cbe46bd4f510 ("powerpc: remove CONFIG_CMDLINE #ifdef
> > mess")
> > CONFIG_CMDLINE has always had a value regardless of
> > CONNIG_CMDLINE_BOOL.
> s/CONNIG/CONFIG/
> 
> > 
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> >   $ make ARCH=powerpc defconfig
> >   $ cat .config
> >   # CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set
> >   CONFIG_CMDLINE=""
> > 
> > When enabling CONNIG_CMDLINE_BOOL this value is kept making the
> > 'default
> > "..." if CONNIG_CMDLINE_BOOL' ineffective.
> s/CONNIG/CONFIG/
> 

Will fix in v2.

> > 
> > 
> >   $ ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
> >   $ cat .config
> >   CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
> >   CONFIG_CMDLINE=""
> > 
> > Additionally all the in-tree powerpc defconfigs that set
> > CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y also set CONFIG_CMDLINE to something else.
> > For
> > these reasons remove the inaccessible default.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
> 
> > 
> > ---
> > This should be independent of http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/114
> > 0811/ but
> > I've generated this patch on a stream that has it applied locally.
> > 
> >   arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 -
> >   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > index d413fe1b4058..6fca6eba6aee 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -844,7 +844,6 @@ config CMDLINE_BOOL
> >   
> >   config CMDLINE
> >   	string "Initial kernel command string" if CMDLINE_BOOL
> > -	default "console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda2"
> > if CMDLINE_BOOL
> >   	default ""
> >   	help
> >   	  On some platforms, there is currently no way for the
> > boot loader to
> > 
> I think we could also get rid of CMDLINE_BOOL totally and use CMDLINE
> != 
> "" instead.

The only reason I can see to keep CMDLINE_BOOL is that it hides the
text input for CMDLINE which seems to be a pattern in Kconfig. Happy to
remove it if that's the consensus. 

I'll wait for the dust to settle on my other patch before sending a v2
of this one.

> 
> Christophe