[PATCH Vivid SRU] UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_RTC_DRV_XGENE=y for only arm64

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Wed Sep 30 21:46:22 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 04:02:56PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:

> > I cannot think of why either method would have a tactical or strategic
> > advantage. Therefore I went with the surgical approach so that the
> > changes made were explicit. In my opinion, an ignore file obfuscates
> > the solution.
> > 
> I was somehow thinking along the lines of the contents of the modules list in
> that abi directory represent the state of that upload. Which still had the
> module(s). And the goal is to drop them with the next upload. That is why I
> thought using ignore files to document the expected "will be missing on the next
> build" might be better...

Removing them from the previous ABI makes that slightly inaccurate,
but can correctly represent the modules only being missing in a subset
of architectures/flavours.  Putting them in the main module.ignore list
keeps the ABI accurate, but prevents detection of accidental changes in
other flavours.

-apw




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