Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:42:29 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] gpio: msc313: MStar MSC313 GPIO driver |
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:31 AM Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > If your SoC is only used by OpenWrt (like ixp4xx) then it is fine > > to just use bool because that distribution is always built with an > > image for a specific hardware, whereas distributions are generic. > > Speaking for myself (since I have a few now), I'm not running OpenWRT > on mine but my own distro, and I guess most users will run either > Buildroot or their own distro. It's unlikely that we'll see very > generic distros there given the limited storage you'd typically have > in an SPI NOR (16-32 MB) and the small RAM (64MB) which tends to > discourage anyone from booting a regular distro over other storage > anyway. > > Thus my guess is that most users will keep building their own kernels. > > But this just emphasizes your points :-)
I think that is a good argument to keep this as bool.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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