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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 13:03:57 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: include common Kconfig files from top-level
 Kconfig

On 07/02/18 07:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of duplicating the source statements in every architecture just
> do it once in the toplevel Kconfig file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  Kconfig                 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/alpha/Kconfig      | 20 --------------------
>  arch/arc/Kconfig        | 16 ----------------
>  arch/arm/Kconfig        | 25 -------------------------
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig      | 23 -----------------------
>  arch/c6x/Kconfig        | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/h8300/Kconfig      | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/hexagon/Kconfig    | 16 ----------------
>  arch/ia64/Kconfig       | 20 --------------------
>  arch/m68k/Kconfig       | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/microblaze/Kconfig | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/mips/Kconfig       | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/nds32/Kconfig      | 16 ----------------
>  arch/nios2/Kconfig      | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/openrisc/Kconfig   | 23 -----------------------
>  arch/parisc/Kconfig     | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig    | 19 -------------------
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig      | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/s390/Kconfig       | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/sh/Kconfig         | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/sparc/Kconfig      | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/unicore32/Kconfig  | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/x86/Kconfig        | 22 +---------------------
>  arch/xtensa/Kconfig     | 25 -------------------------
>  24 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 512 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
> index a90d9f9e268b..5499b1273ba5 100644
> --- a/Kconfig
> +++ b/Kconfig
> @@ -10,3 +10,25 @@ comment "Compiler: $(CC_VERSION_TEXT)"
>  source "scripts/Kconfig.include"
>  
>  source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "init/Kconfig"

Hi Christoph,

Looks good overall.  I'm still doing some testing on it.

I would prefer to have init/Kconfig before arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.
Is there a reason that you chose the ordering above?
Any known dependencies?

Thanks.

> +
> +source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
> +
> +menu "Executable file formats"
> +source "fs/Kconfig.binfmt"
> +endmenu
> +
> +source "mm/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "net/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "drivers/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "fs/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "security/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "crypto/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "lib/Kconfig"


-- 
~Randy