From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:19:48 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Randomization of kconfig choices? In-Reply-To: <20130618171508.GC3952@free.fr> References: <20130618093107.6c08e477@skate> <20130618164904.GB3952@free.fr> <20130618190009.7a08518a@skate> <20130618171508.GC3952@free.fr> Message-ID: <20130618191948.3fee955c@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:15:08 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Aren't there some people that know better the history of this kconfig > > that would be able to help? > > It seems no one knowledgeable is willing to invest time in this. Yeah, that's unfortunate :-( > There was someone (Sam?) who said he'd look, but that was over a month > ago, and he did not reply to my last mail. :-/ > > I have a small idea at the back of my mind that I have to put to > testing. Great! > I /may/ put you to contribution later tonight, mind you! ;-) I will most likely not be available later tonight, but tomorrow I can do some testing of whatever you came up with! > > It seems like you're now more-or-less the > > only one patching this stuff. > > Oh, no. There have been a few new-comers lately who did provide some > further (good) fixes to things we were not even aware of. Being on the linux-kbuild list, I've seen those contributions, but many of them are mostly on the surface, not hacking the low levels of the kconfig magic. > I was even recently directed to a collection of kconfig patches from a > completely unrelated project (but somehow similar in spirit to what > Buildroot is, only to a much smaller scale). Interesting. > There are good things there, and we're trying to shape them before > submitting (that won't be in 3.10, and probably not even in 3.11 since > it will probably not be ready before the next merge window, I'm afraid). Yeah, 3.11 is approaching! Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com