From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from [2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33] (helo=metis.ext.pengutronix.de) by casper.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1NNNC1-0005xB-SZ for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:07:43 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:06:39 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20091223090639.GP15126@pengutronix.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: which drivers subdirs should be automatically selected? To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:02:40AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > drivers/Makefile: > > obj-y += net/ > obj-y += serial/ > obj-y += nand/ > obj-y += nor/ > obj-y += usb/ > obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ > obj-$(CONFIG_I2C) += i2c/ > obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO) += video/ > > > is there a fundamental reason that some of those subdirs are > auto-selected, while others are based on a CONFIG variable? asked > another way, are there some driver subdirs that are so fundamentally > required that they *should* be auto-selected, or should *everything* > be a user-selectable choice? the above just seems slightly > inconsistent and non-obvious. Nothing of the above is really fundamental. Without serial drivers you won't see anything of course, but this won't stop barebox from working. I think this only reflects a change of taste during time and should be done consistently so that other people know how to do it. Prefered is the obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ style. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox