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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 10 14:01:59 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:51 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 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.

There use to be PREP too I think :-)

Ben.





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