From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:53:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] [RFC] linux: add option to avoid kernel kconfig updates In-Reply-To: <1445277739-30943-1-git-send-email-gustavo.zacarias@free-electrons.com> References: <1445277739-30943-1-git-send-email-gustavo.zacarias@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <5626A9B6.8080005@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 19-10-15 20:02, gustavo.zacarias at free-electrons.com wrote: > From: Gustavo Zacarias > > Some packages require specific kernel options enabled to be of any use, > however when building a kernel with a specific configuration intended > for binary-only modules this can be counterproductive. Can you give a concrete example of this? The options that we set automatically should only be options that are really required for building or running. So if you don't set it, it's not going to work anyway. If there is some option that is not really required, then we shouldn't be setting it. Regards, Arnout > > Add an option to disable this behaviour and leave the .config alone. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias [snip] -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF