From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:35008 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861Ab1IUP3G (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:29:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4E7A02AF.9020106@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:28:47 -0700 From: Darren Hart MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script References: <1316582561-23066-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <20110921064423.GA4103@netboy.at.omicron.at> <1316618285.3112.204.camel@work-vm> In-Reply-To: <1316618285.3112.204.camel@work-vm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: John Stultz Cc: Richard Cochran , lkml , Sam Ravnborg , gthelen@google.com, tartler@cs.fau.de, Dmitry Fink , Eric B Munson , Bruce Ashfield , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On 09/21/2011 08:18 AM, John Stultz wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 08:44 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:22:41PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: >>> After noticing almost every distro has their own method of managing >>> config fragments, I went looking at some best practices, and wanted >>> to try to consolidate some of the different approaches so this fairly >>> simple infrastructure can be shared (and new distros/build systems >>> don't have to implement yet another config fragment merge script). >> >> John, >> >> I have been wanting to make or find a way to start with an allnoconfig >> and enable a short list of config options (and the options that are >> needed to allow them). I don't want the other defaults at all. > > "make oldnoconfig" provides something close to this, I think. > >> Can I use your script for this? If not, is there another way to go >> about it? > > I guess my script could take an option to use oldnoconfig instead of the > alldefconfig method. I had considered suggesting this as well. It would be useful for assembling a bare minimum configuration. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel