Re: Kernel features

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 14-09-08 02:07 PM, Ilya Dmitrichenko wrote:
> On 8 September 2014 13:14, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, but we do verify it. There's a check config task, that used to
>> be more visible, I got complaints and we hid it. I have a 1.7 task
>> to make it more visible again :)
>
> I have ran kernel_configcheck and it didn't appear to indicate anything.

The audit files in the source tree should say something. But maybe they
broke (again), when I'm making the results more visible, I'll confirm
if it is working properly.

Bruce

>
>>> Warning: The Kconfig option CONFIG_SND_DAVINCI_SOC_MCASP that you have
>>> specified depends on CONFIG_SND_DAVINCI_SOC. I will enable
>>> CONFIG_SND_DAVINCI_SOC as a module for you.
>>
>>
>> This one you can't do without parsing and evaluating all the Kconfigs,
>> which is expensive, and hard to do. We can do something basic by looking
>> at only the direct options within a particular Kconfig, since they are
>> immediately available.
>
> I see. Have anyone though of making Kconfig itself to dump out deps
> tree in JSON or other machine-readable format?
>
>> But we do detect a whole set of other errors already, and for the most
>> part, they lead pretty quickly to the issue.
>
> Bruce, that's great to hear!
>