From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43722 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754409Ab1HJSA3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:00:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4E42C575.1040408@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:52:53 -0500 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' References: <1312067499.22074.59.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312067670.22074.61.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4E34998D.8060806@zytor.com> <4E4140B3.7090802@suse.cz> <4E4280BA.9050109@suse.cz> <1312981658.2989.39.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312985888.2989.46.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312993987.2989.53.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4E42B940.6070904@efixo.com> In-Reply-To: <4E42B940.6070904@efixo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: emmanuel.deloget@efixo.com Cc: David Woodhouse , Arnaud Lacombe , Michal Marek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" On 08/10/2011 12:00 PM, Emmanuel Deloget wrote: > > I understand that my question is indeed neither wanted nor clever, but > what's the point of trying to support "make CONFIG_FOO=y"? > > Will we be expected to type a 42 meters long command line to compile the > kernel instead of doing a menuconfig in the foreseable future? (and > between typos, unmet dependencies and the myriad of other possible > errors, I'm not sure I'll get more free time). > > I don't get it. If the goal is to help the kernel hackers and if it > really helps them it might be a thing to do - it might prove useful for > very simple CONFIG_ options but I'm not sure this will stay true for the > general case. > That's useful for some cases, though, instead of having to create a file; the driving cases here are architecture, platform or 32/64-bit selection. For longer ones you'll create a file. And no, menuconfig and .config files will not go away. -hpa