[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/2] Clean all defconfigs with savedefconfig

[Joe Hershberger]

Hi Ian,

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 15:45 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:46:24PM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote:
>> >
>> >> In order to reduce merge conflicts and to maintain the simplest possible
>> >> defconfig files, we should be using the savedefconfig feature of Kconfig
>> >> every time a new feature is added. This keeps the defconfig settings to
>> >> a minimum (only those things not default) and keeps them in the same
>> >> order as the Kconfig options.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
>> >> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>> >> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>> >> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
>>
>> This patch wiped out all comments we had in sunxi defconfigs.
>> The comments include description for the boards, a link to a
>> wiki page, explanations for regulator and gpio settings.
>>
>> Hans, Ian, should we move that info to some other place that's
>> safer?
>
> The information is certainly useful and should be preserved. If we can't
> arrange for savedefconfig to preserve useful information (my preference)
> we should indeed put it somewhere else, but where? MAINTAINERS files
> perhaps?

I don't think savedefconfig can do this as is. Someone would have to
work with the Linux kernel build guys to add a feature like that, I
think.

> Tom -- perhaps in the meantime we could get a partial revert?

This will just happen again any time someone moves any config. You're
much better off just moving it to the MAINTAINERS file now if it's
valuable information. That or into a README in doc like other stuff
does.

Cheers,
-Joe