linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Add {kvm_guest,xen}.config targets to make help's output

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNARgCu+FJCPtcNBQJxHJiLwYbTXi2WYCvptPrspTAK7x_w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:47:07 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Add {kvm_guest,xen}.config targets to make
 help's output

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:18 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
>
> Add the targets which add Kconfig items to the .config so that the
> kernel can be run as a guest, to the main 'make help' output so that
> they can be found easier and there's no need to grep the tree each time
> to remember what they should be called.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> index e46df0a2d4f9..fdfae4f6943e 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ help:
>         @echo  '                    default value without prompting'
>         @echo  '  tinyconfig      - Configure the tiniest possible kernel'
>         @echo  '  testconfig      - Run Kconfig unit tests (requires python3 and pytest)'
> +       @echo  '  kvm_guest.config - Enable Kconfig items for running this kernel as a KVM guest'
> +       @echo  '  xen.config      - Enable Kconfig items for running this kernel as a Xen guest'
>
>  # ===========================================================================
>  # object files used by all kconfig flavours
> --
> 2.29.2
>

No.

I do not want to touch scripts/kconfig/Makefile
every time somebody adds a new file to
kernel/configs/*.config or arch/$(ARCH)/configs/*.config




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada