linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel

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Message-ID: <20140811193605.GA20482@ravnborg.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:36:06 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	josh@...htriplett.org
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the
 tiniest possible kernel

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:15:21AM -0700, josh@...htriplett.org wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 06:22:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> wrote:
> > > Since commit 5d2acfc7b974bbd3858b4dd3f2cdc6362dd8843a ("kconfig: make
> > > allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT") in 3.15-rc1,
> > > "make allnoconfig" disables every possible config option.
> > 
> > May I suggest pushing these through the kbuild tree, rather than
> > (judging by the people cc'd) the x86 trees?
> 
> By all means; v3 seems sufficiently generic that it makes more sense for
> both of these patches to go in through a kbuild tree, or something else
> suitably general such as Andrew's tree.
> 
> Would someone mind picking it up, please?
I will take care that they are channeled through kbuild tree.

We are too late for this merge window so we are not in a hurry.

	Sam
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