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Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option

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Hi Olof,

On 16-10-17 05:04 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Scott Branden
> <scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> Hi Olof,
>>
>> On 16-10-17 02:58 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Scott Branden
>>> <scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Enable support for on board SPI EEPROM by turning on
>>>> CONFIG_EEPROM_AT25.  This needs to be on in order to
>>>> boot and test the kernel with a static rootfs image
>>>> that is not rebuilt everytime the kernel is rebuilt.
>>>
>>>
>>> If we did this for every kernel option we'd get a huge kernel.
>>>
>>> In general, we've said that static options for what's needed to boot
>>> to rootfs (i.e. storage and network drivers for nfsroot) are fine to
>>> enable statically.
>>>
>>> I doubt you need the EEPROM driver to boot to rootfs on your system,
>>> so please enable it as a module instead.
OK, I will upstream as module and need config fragments maintained 
locally in order to test defconfig on our test setup.
>>>
>>> Look into using config fragments in case you need to modify the
>>> options for local builds, it should be a convenient way to have a
>>> small delta to apply to fit your internal needs, instead of completely
>>> forking the config file.
>>
>>
>> Do you allow such config fragments to be upstreamed or do we need to
>> maintain these in our tree?
>
> There's no place for them upstream. Maintain locally or in a separate repo.
If that is the case - shall we cleanup arch/arm/configs and delete 
dram_0x00000000.config that was introduced in the 4.4 kernel?
>
>
> -Olof
>

Thanks,
  Scott

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Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> - 2016-10-18 00:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2016-10-18 01:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> - 2016-10-18 02:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2016-10-18 22:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> - 2016-10-18 22:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2016-10-19 00:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-10-19 17:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> - 2016-10-19 19:00 +0200

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