Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1502581

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

Show all headers | View raw

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.
>
> 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?

>
>
> -Olof
>

Thanks,
  Scott

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web