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| From | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: enable EEPROM_AT25 config option |
| Date | 2016-10-18 02:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <stq8F-2CX-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <srwUW-8js-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <sto6R-YG-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <stpvX-28I-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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. >> >> 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. -Olof
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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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