Re: [PATCH 05/15] ARM: turn CONFIG_ATAGS off by default
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Dec 04 2024 - 09:05:22 EST
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 11:29 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Only a very small number of machines remain that rely on
> traditional board files with the ATAGS boot data instead
> of devicetree, and we have not accepted new ones for
> a decade.
>
> Most of the remaining ones are on their way out of the
> kernel, but the Kconfig option that controls ATAGS
> is still enabled by default.
>
> To reflect the actual status of ATAGS support and alert
> the remaining users of upstream and out-of-tree platforms
> with this, chanyge it to being default-disabled and
> add a dependency on CONFIG_EXPERT.
>
> The board specific defconfig files that rely on ATAGS
> are changed to turn on both EXPERT and ATAGS if they
> were not doing thath already, and the ones that explicitly
> turned it off before no longer need to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
For:
> arch/arm/configs/integrator_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/multi_v4t_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/arm/configs/netwinder_defconfig | 2 ++
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yours,
Linus Walleij