linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper

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Message-ID: <1459019060.971.3.camel@paulk.fr>
Date:	Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:04:20 +0100
From:	Paul Kocialkowski <contact@...lk.fr>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	"Yann E . MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper

Le samedi 26 mars 2016 à 19:53 +0100, Sam Ravnborg a écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > 
> > This introduces a localdefconfig make target to specify out-of-tree default
> > configs. The out-of-tree default target is selected by defining
> > KBUILD_LOCALDEFCONFIG in the make command line.
> > 
> > The intent of this change is to easily allow using default configs that are
> > not
> > part of the kernel source (e.g. for a specific device or use case), without
> > ever
> > touching the kernel source tree.
> > 
> Does this differ from what you can achieve with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG?
> See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> 
> From a quick glance the functionality is the same.

It looks like my suggestion is equivalent to specifying KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG and
running the alldefconfig target, indeed!

Thanks for pointing this out, I suppose this patch can be disregarded then.

Cheers,

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, low-level free software developer on embedded devices

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