[U-Boot] what is the *recommended* split between defconfig file and header file?

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:21:16PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 20.07.2016 um 10:56 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 04:15:47AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>   kind of a style question but what is the preferred way to define a
> >>> board in the sense of what belongs in the defconfig file and what
> >>> belongs in the header file?
> >>
> >> The header files will eventually go away.  Most of the contents are
> >> things that could be, but haven't yet been, converted.  A few things
> >> like default environment are going to be harder to figure out.
> > 
> >   and what about the advantage of header files that allow the
> > inclusion of other header files to reduce duplication? will config
> > files be extended to allow the same thing? (they don't do that now, do
> > they?)
> 
> Use Kconfig files for setting defaults or adding selects.

Yes.  I am in favour of making heavy use of "default y if ..."
constructs and when possible some meta-options such as DISTRO_DEFAULTS

-- 
Tom
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