linux-kernel - Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

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Message-ID: <20120714185120.GC4093@moon>
Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:51:20 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
	Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
	OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for
 distro issues

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:43:32PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > For example to enable "PCI driver for virtio devices" I need to go to
> > Device Drivers -> Virtio drivers, while I think it would be great to
> > have everything virt. related in Virtualization section.
> 
> Actually, we need something more generic than that: everything X-related
> should be automatically selected when setting CONFIG_X. And X can be any
> subset of configuration options which belong to one feature, be it KVM,
> distro-specific stuff, or CPU-vendor specific stuff, or whatever.
> 
> I can imagine, for example, that when a user wants to have an
> AMD-specific config, it automatically selects CPU_SUP_AMD, X86_MCE_AMD
> (for MCE), MICROCODE_AMD (microcode support), AGP_AMD64, EDAC_AMD64 and
> a bunch of other AMD-specific features.

sure, no doubts, it would be great! (I must admit I never looked up into
kconfig parser code so i don't know if this could be achieved easily).

	Cyrill
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