[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Remove defconfigs

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Tue Mar 25 12:59:47 EST 2014


Scott,

> On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 12:15 +1100, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > These are always breaking and I feel like I'm the only one fixing them
> > and 
> 
> Always?  Please elaborate.

Maybe once every 2-3 months I have to send a fix up for them.

> > I don't even have one of these boards so let's just remove them.
> 
> What does you having one of these boards have to do with anything?

Well it feels like I'm the only one fixing them (which I guess isn't
true), and I don't even really care about them.

> > They are also broken right now in linux-next when compiling modules.
> 
> A fix for that breakage is in i2c.git i2c/for-current (commit
> 5f12c5eca6e6b7aeb4b2028d579f614b4fe7a81f).  I sent the patch to fix it
> (I guess you're not "the only one fixing them") the day I found out
> about the breakage.  The breakage was introduced by commits from the i2c
> tree, including one late in the rc cycle that enables a driver that
> hadn't been enabled in a while (let's not do that again please).

Great.

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc85xx_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc85xx_defconfig
> > deleted file mode 100644
> > index 19f0fbe..0000000
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/mpc85xx_defconfig
> > +++ /dev/null
> > @@ -1,272 +0,0 @@
> 
> NACK

Fair enough.  It was more of a probe to see who really cared about
them.  Clearly someone does.

> I'm curious why you only removed this one defconfig when
> mpc85xx_smp_defconfig had the same problem...

Should have been both.. I screwed that up.

Mikey


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