linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

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Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:23:55 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:03 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:07:14PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > This patch adds 'make kvmconfig' which allows to add KVM guest support
> > > to a config file.
> > > 
> > > This allows for easier testing of configurations under virtualized
> > > environments.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > > Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> > > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> > > Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > > Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
> > 
> > Two points about the implmentation that I do not like...
> > 
> > The kvmconfig is an x86 specific thing - so it does not belong
> > in the scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> > 
> > The *config namespace is general config targets.
> > 
> > Suggestion:
> > Move the implmentation to arch/x86/Makefile and name the target
> > something that does not match the *config pattern.
> > 
> > Suggestion:
> > 
> >    make kvmbootable
> > 
> > To tell that this convert the current config to a kvmbootable config.
> > 
> > And then add the target to the x86 specific help too.
> 
> KVM itself is not x86 specific (although this patch obviously is), so 
> we'd like to keep at least the naming non-x86.
> 
> Furthermore, the functionality generally fits into the pattern that 
> 'oldconfig' does: it changes an existing config - so having 'config' 
> in the name somewhere makes quite a bit of sense. If i didn't know 
> what 'kvmbootable' does i couldnt guess that it touches the .config - 
> while the *config pattern makes that patently obvious.
> 
> Could we set aside some sort of name for such subsystem specific 
> purposes and be done with it? Could we reuse the 'defconfig' 
> naming perhaps and make it richer:
> 
> 	make defconfig kvm
> 
> or:
> 
> 	make defconfig-kvm
> 
> ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.

We can possibly make 'make defconfig abc' run arch specific script
located next to the defconfig files (arch/$(ARCH)/configs/).

It would both solve the problem with being arch specific, and would
allow for future expansion of other 'kvm defconfig' options.

-- 

Sasha.

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