[PATCH] powerpc: remove default=y from PMAC and CHRP Kconfigs

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Fri Oct 10 12:51:11 EST 2008


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

>> 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).

Ok, I can accept that.

> 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.

As far as I know, CHRP and PMAC are the only PowerPC platforms that
default to Y.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale



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