linux-kernel - Re: How to remove 2000+ lines from 400+ defconfig files?

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Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:39:51 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to remove 2000+ lines from 400+ defconfig files?

Dne 15.11.2011 16:37, Paul Bolle napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:14 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> I am fine taking those through trivial.git and handling the fallout.
>
> Great.
>
>> The only ones I'd have objections to taking immediately are those which are
>> actually still referenced somewhere in the code.
>> For those, either taking them through appropriate maintainers, or having
>> their Acked-by would be required.
>
> I don't mind. That shouldn't be a lot of extra work for me.
>
> But, I do have a naive question: are defconfigs meant to be drop in
> replacements for .config files or is one supposed to first feed them to
> the config tools to generate an up to date .config?

defconfig files are used as input of the conf program.

  Since, if one is
> supposed to feed them to the config tools first it doesn't matter
> whether the (outdated) macros are still used somewhere in the code,
> doesn't it? The config tools will simply drop all macros they can't
> match with Kconfig symbols. (Or don't they? Michal?)

Yes, they will not appear in the .config.

Michal
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