Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

Ingo Molnar
2011-10-28T12:33:44Z

* Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> wrote:

> On 28.10.2011 09:54, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.
> > >
> > > This fits in the generic "I have a .config and I want to enable an
> > > additional option" functionality:
> > >
> > > make oldconfig CONFIG_KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE=y
> > >
> > > Don't we already have that support? I seem to remember it flying
> > > by. Or was it just a proposal that never got implemented?
> >
> > Well, it would be nice to have something (much) shorter and more
> > obvious, as we really expect to use this frequently.
> >
> > Maybe:
> >
> > make oldconfig kvm
>
> Maybe something more obvious?:
> make modconfig kvm
> or
> make modconfig=kvm

Well, i run distinctly non-modular kernels so modconfig would not be
particularly good. Also, many of the features enabled are non-modular
core kernel features to begin with.

But i don't particularly care about how it's named, as long as
there's a sane and obvious shortcut for it.

Thanks,

Ingo