[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] linux: add option to rely on a bootloader-provided DTB

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, Thomas, All,

On 2015-01-02 00:15 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
>  > Dear Yann E. MORIN,
>  > On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 22:58:45 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
>  >> However, I beg to disagree on that last part: I think we should have
>  >> this as an option in Buildroot.
>  >> 
>  >> The reason is that some platforms can be built with or without support
>  >> for the device tree. The Raspberry Pi is but one such platform; there
>  >> are others. Their defconfig do not always enable USE_OF by default, it
>  >> must be a volunteer selection from the user.
>  >> 
>  >> In that case, your opinion is to delegate to the user the responsibility
>  >> to enable that on his own, right? So, it would no longer be possible to
>  >> use in-tree defconfigs for those boards, for example.
> 
>  > Well, to me this is a slippery slope. There are gazillions of kernel
>  > options that do platform-specific stuff. So far, we really tried hard
>  > to limit how much Buildroot modifies the kernel options, and tried to
>  > limit that to cases related to userspace components enabled by the user
>  > that really need some feature in the kernel.
> 
>  > Let's see what Peter thinks about this, he might very well have a
>  > different opinion on this.
> 
> I must say I'm with Thomas on this one. Let's not fiddle with the kernel
> .config unless we really _HAVE_ to.

OK, marked as Rejected in Patchwork, dropped from my tree.

Thamks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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