From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F2F1C3DA66 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:12:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=tRBDqPSWI/0NfZF8Tj6xBEXof9tyxAThhOuUqRim4V0=; b=XPjuyRC+G4u5BI 44RwdXrPb1ZAmO/+WsBhRlYNh4rgjUKZuWf/yDycME564Dp/EmGaXLffkG67+hOAI2xLvYTr05JVD +Vt1VqZ0ldKmkM6bAmFGRK9kip2PhuqNQJKw49XvooCdOyABjOH1FpPTrg7gPTfJmBUsa5BGRhgxC qEg34fY2kn31e2MMrQcxTWTDcH2Jq4VEQ4pCK0cYk6wLQuduGtW7yzaRBz+4/T4AwSqjxrJwHcLNm AMFy2uTP7m3NZxWYkKM3yLau/t49SQ4hbvqB/Dg9w2/spoCGrvQQ3ETt0uFHQaHLleqKgBR879b3k LSjdJBbahlc2grIf4wfA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qZcDU-005vPi-05; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:11:32 +0000 Received: from [2601:1c2:980:9ec0::2764] by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qZcDR-005vPP-1T; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:11:29 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:11:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.14.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Show Kconfig fragments in "help" Content-Language: en-US To: Kees Cook 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 References: <20230824223606.never.762-kees@kernel.org> <21193a52-0425-f5ae-90f0-10e4c578ae90@infradead.org> <202308251119.B93C95A3A7@keescook> From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <202308251119.B93C95A3A7@keescook> 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 8/25/23 11:20, Kees Cook wrote: > 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. :) Why? :) but you don't have to answer. I acquiesce (i.e., give up). >> "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... > -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel