From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marian Marinov Subject: Re: what's the fast way to enable a config item? Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:27:05 +0200 Message-ID: <568B9A79.8020105@yuhu.biz> References: <20151225013040.GA21467@ubuntu-gnome> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151225013040.GA21467@ubuntu-gnome> Sender: linux-config-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Derek Cheugn , linux-config@vger.kernel.org You simply need to enable it in your .config file and rebuild. Marian On 12/25/2015 03:30 AM, Derek Cheugn wrote: > hi all, > > I have a simple question (have searched but didn't get any good answer > yet): > > what's the best way to enable a config item without interactive > interface? if I know the module name, I can find the CONFIG_ name by > this: then in menuconfig to search SENSORS_APPLESMC to enable it; > > $ find -name Makefile |xargs grep -w applesmc > ./drivers/hwmon/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_APPLESMC) += applesmc.o > > but is there a good way to enable it without interactive interface? > > the interactive config interfaces (menuconfig/gconfig/xconfig) are good > for one or two configs, but when I want to enable a list of modules, > this solution is not scalable; > > I've tried localmodconfig with LSMOD= env variable, but the > localmodconfig doesn't seem to be working in this way, I feel it's > working by an elimination way, to start from a known to be working > config (maybe from a distro or somewhere) > > $ LSMOD=~/tmp/modules-merged make localmodconfig > > while, I want to start with `make defconfig` and enable a list of config > needed; that to accept a list of CONFIG_* names, or a list of modules > name, does anyone if such a config method exists? > > > thanks, > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-config" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >