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

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Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:47:19 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
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'

On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

Yup, I wasn't planning on it to work like defconfig does where it just
uses a default config, thats why I said 'run arch specific script' :)

That script could either copy over a default config, or simply add
config options like what we're interested in doing.

-- 

Sasha.

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