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[198.0.35.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d12-20020a17090a628c00b0026b3f76a063sm1910536pjj.44.2023.08.25.11.20.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:20:32 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Masahiro Yamada , x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Show Kconfig fragments in "help" Message-ID: <202308251119.B93C95A3A7@keescook> References: <20230824223606.never.762-kees@kernel.org> <21193a52-0425-f5ae-90f0-10e4c578ae90@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21193a52-0425-f5ae-90f0-10e4c578ae90@infradead.org> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230825_112035_347145_6D2C3790 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 22.60 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 05:04:02PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi Kees, > > On 8/24/23 15:36, Kees Cook wrote: > > Doing a "make help" would show only hard-coded Kconfig targets and > > depended on the archhelp target to include ".config" targets. There was > > nothing showing global kernel/configs/ targets. Solve this by walking > > the wildcard list and include them in the output, using the first comment > > line as the help text. > > > > Update all Kconfig fragments to include help text and adjust archhelp > > targets to avoid redundancy. > > > > Adds the following section to "help" target output: > > > > Configuration fragment targets (for enabling various Kconfig items): > > debug.config - Debugging for CI systems and finding regressions > > kvm_guest.config - Bootable as a KVM guest > > nopm.config - Disable Power Management > > rust.config - Enable Rust > > tiny-base.config - Minimal options for tiny systems > > tiny.config - Smallest possible kernel image > > x86_debug.config - Debugging options for tip tree testing > > xen.config - Bootable as a Xen guest > > tiny.config - x86-specific options for a small kernel image > > xen.config - x86-specific options for a Xen virtualization guest > > ISTM that you are missing the "why" part of this change in the commit > description. I want to see what fragments are available without needing to know the source tree layout for their locations. :) > "make tinyconfig" is the real target here. The other (tiny.) files are just > implementation details. > We can't put all implementation details into help messages and it's not > difficult to find that the (tiny.) config files are merged to make the > final .config file. Yeah, this seems true for much of the ppc stuff to, as pointed out by mpe. I'll go answer there... -- Kees Cook _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel