Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] drivers: cleanup Kconfig stuff

[Felipe Contreras]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:14:13AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> Âconfig REGULATOR_TWL4030
>> Â Â Â bool "TI TWL4030/TWL5030/TWL6030/TPS695x0 PMIC"
>> Â Â Â depends on TWL4030_CORE
>> + Â Â default y
>> Â Â Â help
>> Â Â Â Â This driver supports the voltage regulators provided by
>> Â Â Â Â this family of companion chips.
>
> This default is not suitable for non-OMAP platforms, it should be
> conditional on OMAP or something if we're going to do this (though
> generally we handle this with defconfigs rather than in Kconfig).

This would only be enabled when TWL4030_CORE is enabled, so non-OMAP
platforms would not get affected.

I guess you have seen the complaint from Linus regarding ARM relying
too much on defconfigs. This helps in order to simplify defconfigs,
and eventually getting rid of them completely.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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