On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Scott Branden <scott.bran...@broadcom.com> wrote: > Hi Olof, > > On 16-10-17 02:58 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Scott Branden >> <scott.bran...@broadcom.com> wrote: >>> >>> Enable support for on board SPI EEPROM by turning on >>> CONFIG_EEPROM_AT25. This needs to be on in order to >>> boot and test the kernel with a static rootfs image >>> that is not rebuilt everytime the kernel is rebuilt. >> >> >> If we did this for every kernel option we'd get a huge kernel. >> >> In general, we've said that static options for what's needed to boot >> to rootfs (i.e. storage and network drivers for nfsroot) are fine to >> enable statically. >> >> I doubt you need the EEPROM driver to boot to rootfs on your system, >> so please enable it as a module instead. >> >> Look into using config fragments in case you need to modify the >> options for local builds, it should be a convenient way to have a >> small delta to apply to fit your internal needs, instead of completely >> forking the config file. > > > Do you allow such config fragments to be upstreamed or do we need to > maintain these in our tree?
There's no place for them upstream. Maintain locally or in a separate repo. -Olof