linux-kernel - Re: What about make mergeconfig ?

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Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:18:55 -0000
From:	dick.streefland@...ium.nl (Dick Streefland)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What about make mergeconfig ?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
| I'm not good enough at make and friends to do that myself without
| spending a lot more time than I have at hand, but I figured it might be
| something doable in a blink for whoever knows Kconfig guts :)
| 
| What about something like:
| 
| make mergeconfig <path_to_file>
| 
| That would merge all entries in the specified file with the
| current .config. By mergeing, that basically means that rule:
| 
| N + N = N
| m + N = m
| Y + N = Y
| m + Y = Y
| 
| (that is, we basically take for each entry max(.config, merge file)

Can't you do that with just a sort command?

  sort .config other.config > new.config

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