Re: [PATCH] arc: get rid of DEVTMPFS dependency on INITRAMFS_SOURCE

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Tue Feb 23 2016 - 02:02:36 EST


On Saturday 20 February 2016 06:35 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Even though DEVTMPFS is required when our pre-built initramfs
> is used it is not the case in general. It is perfectly possible
> to use initramfs with device nodes already populated or there
> could be other usages, see discussion below for more detials:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/37819/focus=37821
>
> This change removes mentioned dependency from arch/arc/Kconfig
> updating instead those defconfigs that are usually used with this
> kind of pre-build initramfs.
>
> And while at it all touched defconfigs were regenerated via
> savedefconfig and some options were removed:
> * USB is selected by other options implicitly
> * VGA_CONSOLE is disableb for ARC since
> 031e29b5877f31676739dc2f847d04c2c0732034
> * EXT3_FS automatically selects EXT4_FS
> * MTDxxx and JFFS2_FS make no sense for AXS because
> AXS NAND controller is not upstreamed
> * NET_OSCI_LAN is not in upstream as well
> * ARCPGU_xxx options make no sense because ARC PGU is not yet
> in upstream and when it gets there all config options would
> be taken from devicetree
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thx for additional cleanup Alexey. Applied to for-curr (4.5)

-Vineet