linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:18:29 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for 
	defconfig

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:57:55AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> Last missing piece is being able to do "select FOO = n", which Stephen
>> is currently working on.
>
> I thought Linus' idea was to use:
>
> KBUILD_KCONFIG=file make allnoconfig

That was more a prototype of the idea; but it's a pretty cumbersome
user interface.  :-)  By changing the makefile to look for kconfig
fragments in the configs directory, the user interface for choosing a
config remains exactly the same.

As for the allnoconfig bit....

> in which case any option which would be presented to the user which hasn't
> been selected by 'file' ends up being set to n.  That means there's no
> need for a special "select FOO=n" construct.

...Linus chimed in on this that he doesn't actually care much.  I
think defconfig with an empty initial config file makes a lot more
sense than allnoconfig so that we're using the default values from the
normal Kconfig files.

> See one of Linus' replies on June 3:
> Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006031317410.8175@...linux-foundation.org>

See this response:
Message-ID: <AANLkTik-QCXFnjma3J28B9h27uajOcDhthTGz99zKgVi@...l.gmail.com>

http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cAANLkTik%2dQCXFnjma3J28B9h27uajOcDhthTGz99zKgVi%40mail.gmail.com%3e

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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