{arch}/conf/DEFAULTS and uart

[Alexander Best]

On Fri Sep 10 10, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:50:45 pm Alexander Best wrote:
> > On Thu Sep  9 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > On Thu Sep  9 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > > hi there,
> > > > 
> > > > except for arm most archs seem to enforce uart support in conf/DEFAULTS. is
> > > > this really necessary? shouldn't DEFAULTS only contain vital devices/options
> > > > without a kernel on a specific arch won't function at all?
> > > 
> > > jhb just explained to me, that the uart entry in DEFAULTS is not a controller
> > > or something like that, but the uart backend to use *if* uart gets defined in
> > > the kernel config.
> > > 
> > > sorry for the noise folks.
> > 
> > however i found some missing comments and incorrect syntax which i fixed.
> > 
> > see the attached patch.
> 
> I think the ia64 ordering for 'io and mem' is probably more correct
> (alphabetically sorted), so I would fix i386 and amd64 and leave ia64 alone.
> 
> The powerpc 'machine' changes are wrong I think as it would break GENERIC64
> and powerpc64 kernel configs in general.  Nathan purposefully removed
> 'machine' from the powerpc DEFAULTS.

thanks for the feedback. i'll hack in the changes and will send out a new patch
on monday or so. :)

cheers.
alex

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