linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add merge

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Message-ID: <1316618285.3112.204.camel@work-vm>
Date:	Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:18:05 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, gthelen@...gle.com,
	tartler@...fau.de, Dmitry Fink <Dmitry.Fink@...m.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>,
	Bruce Ashfield <Bruce.Ashfield@...driver.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 08:44 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:22:41PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > After noticing almost every distro has their own method of managing
> > config fragments, I went looking at some best practices, and wanted
> > to try to consolidate some of the different approaches so this fairly
> > simple infrastructure can be shared (and new distros/build systems
> > don't have to implement yet another config fragment merge script).
> 
> John,
> 
> I have been wanting to make or find a way to start with an allnoconfig
> and enable a short list of config options (and the options that are
> needed to allow them). I don't want the other defaults at all.

"make oldnoconfig" provides something close to this, I think. 

> Can I use your script for this? If not, is there another way to go
> about it?

I guess my script could take an option to use oldnoconfig instead of the
alldefconfig method.

thanks
-john



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