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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:03:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] config: remove useless lines for DPAA2
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03/04/2018 08:55, Shreyansh Jain:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2018 03:36 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Some comments are not relevant in a config which only overrides
> > the default config.
> > 
> > The option CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_DEBUG_DRIVER is already disabled
> > by default so it can be removed from this file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > ---
> >   config/defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc | 7 -------
> >   1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> I think DEBUG_DRIVER should exist in local config so that a developer 
> can easily toggle it without modifying the common_base, which should 
> serves as repository rather than toggle.

No, the file to be modified is .config in the build directory,
not the default config.

> I do see the problem that having an option in common_base and then 
> having it again in local config without overriding (=n) - is non-intuitive.
> 
> But, I still feel it is easier to control changes in local config - 
> (make T=<local config>) is easily visible.

It is not a local config file.
The local config is .config.