[cip-dev] [RFC] Script to find used sources in the kernel

[ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk (Ben Hutchings)]

On Sat, 2019-06-22 at 22:07 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > There are a couple of open questions, on which I would like to hear
> > other's opinions:
> > 
> > * Should the source lists be added to the repository or not?  If they
> >   are added, then they should not be changed by the standard "all" and
> >   "clean" targets.
> >   I tend to think that they should be added, because they take a long
> >   time to generate and require cross-compilers etc. to be installed.
> 
> I believe they should go to the repository, because we may want to
> manually adjust the lists.

I've implemented that option.

> I don't believe "example" configurations we have necessarily have
> enabled all the options "final products" may need. If some common
> option (vfat?) is not enabled in our configurations, because it is not
> hardware specific and not needed for testing, we may still want to
> review it, because it is common enough that someone will need it...

I hadn't thought of that, but it does seem possible.  However, I think
that rather than editing a generated list it would be better to have a
separate manually maintained list that is merged into the generated
list.

Ben.

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