Re: ansible.cfg pathname setting

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 03:08:48PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On 8/28/25 2:59 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 12:41:08PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >> Any opinions about this idea? I can build it if folks agree to it.
> > 
> > I tend to just run my own new make defconfig-foo in each directory for
> > each workload, so I have opinion on this, but it sounds like perhaps
> > a kconfig option is desirable, to perhaps opt-in to let it use current
> > working directory for the file?
> 
> That's the basic idea. It feels like that would work better "just out
> of the shrinkwrap".
> 
> 
> > But if it was not generated then via
> > make then what would it use? Ie, if you're shaing a built .config to
> > other directories without making make then it sounds like a requirement
> > is to also share the generated ansible config?
> 
> I think that's what I would have to do: include both the .config and
> an ansible.cfg in the kdevops branch pulled by each test runner.
>
> That seems to break the idea that the whole configuration is managed
> from .config.

Well, ansible.cfg is generated by stuff you enabled, I think right, so
one option is that if you *do* opt in for that feature, and you didn't
want to copy both, it could be smart, and if that feature was enabled
but ansible.cfg is not found, it could re-generate it.

Thoughts?

  Luis