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* [PATCH 0/2] Config fragment tools
@ 2011-09-17  1:49 John Stultz
  2011-09-17  1:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Add make olddefconfig John Stultz
  2011-09-17  1:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script John Stultz
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: John Stultz @ 2011-09-17  1:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml
  Cc: John Stultz, gthelen, tartler, Dmitry Fink, Darren Hart,
	Eric B Munson, Bruce Ashfield, Michal Marek, linux-kbuild

Last week at Plumbers, Darren Hart and I hosted a BOF on config fragments.
I wanted to say thanks to all the hungry attendees (8pm on the evening where
dinner was fend-for-yourself made it especially hard to draw a crowd) for
their thoughts and discussion. 

There I promised to send out some patches to try to get some common tooling
pushed upstream. I realize this isn't difficult code, but after seeing
almost every distro and build system re-implement the same basic
functionality over and over, it seems like there should be some tooling for
this common use case.

I'm sure this tooling won't work for everyone, and I expect it will need to
evolve to adapt for various use cases, but I wanted to push it out so that I
could make concrete what I was describing in the talk, as well as get some
wider feedback.

So let me know if you have any comments or thoughts!

thanks
-john


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CC: tartler@cs.fau.de
CC: Dmitry Fink <Dmitry.Fink@palm.com>
CC: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
CC: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
CC: Bruce Ashfield <Bruce.Ashfield@windriver.com>
CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org

John Stultz (2):
  kconfig: Add make olddefconfig
  kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script

 scripts/kconfig/Makefile        |    2 +-
 scripts/kconfig/conf.c          |    4 ++
 scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh |   72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh

-- 
1.7.3.2.146.gca209


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