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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1207161005320.20176@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:05:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	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>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration
 for distro issues

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Select the profile and then fixup the config the normal way.
>>
>> If what the admin wants is incompatible with the profile, admin doesn't
>> select the profile.
>
> Thats ugly - "distro except..." is a standard thing you ask users to do
> for debugging.
>
> However providing you separate the initial profile from the later tools
> it simply becomes
>
> make distroconfig
> 	[cp /etc/system-kconfig(.$ARCH?) .config
> 	 make oldconfig]
>
> make menuconfig (if you want to customise)
>
> In addition the make oldconfig means you can ship a deliberately
> incomplete distroconfig and get the user asked some bits.

exactly what I was fumbling to describe, thanks.

David Lang
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