From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:31:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Question about kernel defconfig In-Reply-To: <20101122213317.GA10532@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <20101122183327.1285c439@surf> <20101122213317.GA10532@merkur.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: <20101123223158.1a555b29@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:33:18 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > kconfig behaves in different ways depending on what type of input it receives. > To use the minimal configs generated by "savedefconfig" you need to read > them using "--defconfig". > And there is today no way to specify your own defconfig file. > > One workaround could be to copy the file to: > > arch/$ARCH/configs/buildroot_defconfig > > And then use: > > make buildroot_defconfig > > This will read the minimal config in the same way the kernel usually does it. Ok, thanks. I thought about this in the past, but found it a bit hacky. But as there's no other simple solution, I just implemented that. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com