linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: Make localmodconfig handle environment variables

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Message-ID: <1289263747.12418.78.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:49:07 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] kconfig: Make localmodconfig handle
 environment variables

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 18:05 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,

> > But you are right. After KS and Plumbers, I'll work on doing something
> > like that. That can probably solve some of the other issues I'm having
> > (still keeping too many modules enabled).
> >
> I have some work in progress in this area: cleanup, better split
> between the kconfig backend and frontend, and eventually a perl
> binding. That would all be an interesting goal for .38 :-)
> 
> Currently I got the parser working within perl, but I'm not really
> really sure of what I can currently do with it and how the whole thing
> interface to one another :)

Let me know what you got, I would really like localmodconfig to have
this back end. It should really help get a minimal config as well.

-- Steve


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