[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/avrdude: add linux gpio kconfig option

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Didn't you just agree with Baruch that we could just enable it
 >> unconditially and not have a Config.in option for it?
 >> 

 > Not sure we reached a conclusion.  I guess the question would be,
 > right now in buildroot it doesn't enable this option.  So if we by
 > default go linux-gpio it disables the legacy options which were the
 > previous default (kernel's older then sysfs gpio support)

Do you mean that enabling this driver disables anything else? I don't
see that. The kernel's gpio sysfs interface is close to 10 years old by
now, so I doubt that is an issue.

>From the looks of it, the linuxgpio driver seems to be very small
compared to the total size of avrdude, so unconditionally enabling it
sounds sensible to me.

I notice that we are using a fork of avrdude which hasn't really been
updated significantly since 2013 instead of the official one which had a
release in 2016. Any reason we shouldn't be using the official one
instead?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard