From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1NNNO7-0000Rn-3g for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:20:14 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:19:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" In-Reply-To: <20091223090639.GP15126@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: References: <20091223090639.GP15126@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: which drivers subdirs should be automatically selected? To: Sascha Hauer Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:02:40AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > drivers/Makefile: > > > > obj-y += net/ > > obj-y += serial/ > > obj-y += nand/ > > obj-y += nor/ > > obj-y += usb/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_I2C) += i2c/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO) += video/ > > > > > > is there a fundamental reason that some of those subdirs are > > auto-selected, while others are based on a CONFIG variable? > > asked another way, are there some driver subdirs that are so > > fundamentally required that they *should* be auto-selected, or > > should *everything* be a user-selectable choice? the above just > > seems slightly inconsistent and non-obvious. > > Nothing of the above is really fundamental. Without serial drivers > you won't see anything of course, but this won't stop barebox from > working. I think this only reflects a change of taste during time > and should be done consistently so that other people know how to do > it. Prefered is the obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ style. fair enough, i can take a shot at that. stuff that's really basic (like serial) can simply be marked as "default y" so you'd have to explicitly *exclude* it in unusual cases. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox