Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] arm64: Add BCM2835 support to the defconfig.

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jun 03 2016 - 04:58:16 EST


On Friday, June 3, 2016 10:50:16 AM CEST Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fr, 2016-06-03 at 09:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday, June 3, 2016 8:18:24 AM CEST Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > From: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Made with make defconfig; make menuconfig (only saying Y to new
> > > entries); make savedefconfig.
> >
> > Please try not to mix 'make savedefconfig' changes with your
> > own changes, it make it harder to review and can lead to more
> > conflicts.
>
> This is just conflicts resolved by hand after 4.6 -> 4.7-rc1 rebase,
> latest version didn't actually ran through savedefconfig. Probably some
> unwanted changes made it in by accident this way.
>
> Guess I better redo this from scratch.
>
> What is the suggested procedure to generate defconfig patches?

I tend to just edit the files by hand, or use 'make savedefconfig' to
create an initial version, and then use 'vimdiff' to revert the changes
I don't want.

Arnd