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

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Message-ID: <20111028073915.GA27593@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:39:15 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, 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'

* Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com> wrote:

> > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.
> 
> We can possibly make 'make defconfig abc' run arch specific script 
> located next to the defconfig files (arch/$(ARCH)/configs/).

AFAICS that's not the same as the current kvmconfig functionality 
though: we want to minimally enable certain config options in the 
current .config - not pick some default config.

My main usecase for this is that i want to minimally change .config's 
that get mailed to me, to reproduce a bug reporter's kernel as 
closely as possible - and be able to boot it in KVM.

It's a straightforward, very useful feature, i've been using my own 
similar hack to do something similar for years and it works very 
well.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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