linux-kernel - Re: make randconfig improvement

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Message-ID: <20070725065426.GA24093@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:54:26 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	kai@...maschewski.name, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: make randconfig improvement

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:42:38AM +0000, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi,
> IMHO, the randconfig option make no sense sometimes. For me, My
> computer need some must-have config options, like SATA and USB
> keyboard config options. I think many other people maybe have similar
> problems.
> 
> So, what about improve the randconfig?  let's add some basic options ,
> like oldconfig.   We can use randconfig based user-defined options,
> randing except the pre-defined ones.
> 
> What's your opinons?

kconfig has support for reading a file specified by by
$KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG or if not specified for randconfig to read
a file named allrandom.config.

The syntax of the files are the same as in .config.

How far is this from what you try to achieve?

	Sam
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