linux-kernel - Re: Proposal: single defconfig for all ARM

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Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 11:55:09 +0530
From:   Pintu Kumar <pintu.ping@...il.com>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <metux@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: single defconfig for all ARM

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<metux@....de> wrote:
> On 26.10.2017 18:26, Pintu Kumar wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My proposal is to maintain a common base defconfig file for all ARM
>> products and only add the additional configs in the new defconfig
>> file.
>> I am not sure if this is already possible. If this is possible please
>> let us know the steps.
>
>
> Would cat'ing 'em together do the trick ?
>

I think simply cating together may not help.

I observed that there is already a script
(script/kconfig/merge_config.sh) to merge several defconfig.
May be something like this will help.
But still we have to maintain one common base_defconfig and remove
redundant entries in our defconfig.

Does it make sense?


> OTOH, we could introduce meta-options in a separate menu, that just
> enable the actual ones. eg:
>
> --> Select SoC type
>   --> imx6 series
>       --> imx6 model: imx6q, imx6dl, imx6ul, ...
>       --> enable networking
>       --> enable lcd display
>       --> enable hdmi display
>       --> enable sdma
>       --> enable usb
>   ...
>
>
> --mtx
>
> --
> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> Free software and Linux embedded engineering
> info@...ux.net -- +49-151-27565287