linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

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Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:05:35 +0200
From:	Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@...d.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

On 28.10.2011 14:29, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@...d.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 28.10.2011 09:54, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.
> > > > 
> > > > This fits in the generic "I have a .config and I want to enable an 
> > > > additional option" functionality:
> > > > 
> > > > make oldconfig CONFIG_KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE=y
> > > > 
> > > > Don't we already have that support? I seem to remember it flying 
> > > > by. Or was it just a proposal that never got implemented?
> > > 
> > > Well, it would be nice to have something (much) shorter and more 
> > > obvious, as we really expect to use this frequently.
> > > 
> > > Maybe:
> > > 
> > >   make oldconfig kvm
> > 
> > Maybe something more obvious?:
> > make modconfig kvm
> > or
> > make modconfig=kvm
> 
> Well, i run distinctly non-modular kernels so modconfig would not be 
> particularly good. Also, many of the features enabled are non-modular 
> core kernel features to begin with.

I thougt about that just as i send the e-mail, to near to "mod"ular. 
What i meant was "mod"ify.

And AFAICS there currently is no "modconfig", only an "allmodconfig" 
(and "localmodconfig")

With no letters dropped it would be less ambiguous.
make modifyconfig=kvm




Bis denn

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