From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37850 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932075Ab1J1H5L (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:57:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:52:31 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig' Message-ID: <20111028075231.GA8626@elte.hu> References: <1319717234-20918-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <20111027193448.GA3514@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20111028070336.GF12995@elte.hu> <1319786635.3235.11.camel@lappy> <20111028073915.GA27593@elte.hu> <1319788039.3235.13.camel@lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1319788039.3235.13.camel@lappy> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sasha Levin Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Michal Marek , Pekka Enberg , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org * Sasha Levin wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > > > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does. > > > > > > We can possibly make 'make defconfig abc' run arch specific script > > > located next to the defconfig files (arch/$(ARCH)/configs/). > > > > AFAICS that's not the same as the current kvmconfig functionality > > though: we want to minimally enable certain config options in the > > current .config - not pick some default config. > > Yup, I wasn't planning on it to work like defconfig does where it > just uses a default config, thats why I said 'run arch specific > script' :) > > That script could either copy over a default config, or simply add > config options like what we're interested in doing. i'd be fine with that extension to defconfig functionality. It in fact makes much more sense than the *current* defconfig functionality which is kind of a joke (as it's really just an arbitrary config). Thanks, Ingo