From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info ([195.71.86.239]:48798 "EHLO enyo.dsw2k3.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752717Ab1J1NFu (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:05:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:05:35 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig' Message-ID: <20111028130535.GA2752@citd.de> References: <1319717234-20918-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <20111027193448.GA3514@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20111028070336.GF12995@elte.hu> <20111028075432.GB8626@elte.hu> <20111028120856.GA29174@citd.de> <20111028122902.GA25323@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111028122902.GA25323@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Sam Ravnborg , Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Michal Marek , Pekka Enberg , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On 28.10.2011 14:29, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > On 28.10.2011 09:54, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > * Geert Uytterhoeven 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. I thougt about that just as i send the e-mail, to near to "mod"ular. What i meant was "mod"ify. And AFAICS there currently is no "modconfig", only an "allmodconfig" (and "localmodconfig") With no letters dropped it would be less ambiguous. make modifyconfig=kvm Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.