Hi Bin,
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:05 PM Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 6:09 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 6:27 AM Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > From: Bin Meng <bin.m...@windriver.com>
> > >
> > > Drop CONFIG_MTD_M25P80 that was removed in
> > > commit b35b9a10362d ("mtd: spi-nor: Move m25p80 code in spi-nor.c")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.m...@windriver.com>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > Blindly removing config options from defconfig files that haven't
> > received much love for a while is IMHO not such a good idea, as it makes
> > it harder to see what the affected platform needs, or needed.
> >
> > > --- a/arch/sh/configs/sh7757lcr_defconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/sh/configs/sh7757lcr_defconfig
> > > @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ CONFIG_IPV6=y
> > > # CONFIG_FW_LOADER is not set
> > > CONFIG_MTD=y
> > > CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y
> > > -CONFIG_MTD_M25P80=y
> > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
> > > CONFIG_SCSI=y
> > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
> >
> > MTD_SPI_NOR became a dependency for MTD_M25P80 since commit
> > 03e296f613affcc2671c1e86d8c25ecad867204e ("mtd: m25p80: use the SPI nor
> > framework") and commit e43b20619bdb6c851dd7b49cbd15e52875a785d4 ("mtd:
> > spi-nor: shorten Kconfig naming"). Hence CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR=y should be
> > added to avoid breaking the platform's SPI FLASH support.
> >
> > Just removing CONFIG_MTD_M25P80=y from the defconfig makes this less
> > visible for someone who wants to build a kernel for this platform using
> > "make sh7757lcr_defconfig": it can no longer be seen that
> > CONFIG_MTD_M25P80=y won't be present in the resulting .config file.
> >
>
> Thank you for the review! Sorry I missed that.
>
> > I think the platform would be better served with a proper refresh of the
> > defconfig file.
>
> I am not sure if doing a defconfig refresh should be a separate patch.
OK.
> I felt mixing the refresh with the real changes makes the code review
> a little bit hard. I just sent v2 without the refresh. Please let me
> know if it is okay.
Thank you, that's fine. It turns out sh7757lcr_defconfig has less bitrotted
than I had feared.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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