Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> 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